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Roller derby: The Inferno jamming into season finale
Captains Katie-Marie Hill and Erin Lynch will play jammer roles in final bout of the season for Androscoggin Fallen Angels team, which is coming off a win over Worcester.
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Jamming and blocking: Roller derby in Lewiston
LEWISTON — The third birthday of the Androscoggin Fallen Angels roller derby league was celebrated Saturday with a “slam-i-versary,” featuring an epic match between the AFA’s Inferno and the Central Maine Derby’s Northwood Knockouts at the Lewiston Armory. The Knockouts won the match by a score of 281-198. Roller derby, a contact sport played […]
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Roller Derby: Top skaters join Androscoggin Fallen Angels
LEWISTON — “Leif Mia Lone” and “Dinah Fire” have competed in roller derby bouts across the country against some of the world’s best players. Competing against teams from Sydney, Australia, Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Auckland, New Zealand, these two athletes know good roller derby when they see it. Desiree Snow, or “Leif Mia Lone,” […]
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Roller derby: Androscoggin Fallen Angels all set for Super Roll
Nina “Killeesi” Gargan and Melissa “PsychoBadBull” Mercay-Collins are members of Lewiston’s newest roller derby team, The Inferno. (Andree Kehn/Sun Journal) LEWISTON — Big hits, plenty of action, a boisterous crowd, and even a halftime show will all be wrapped up into one this coming weekend. No, not on Sunday. And not the Super Bowl. On […]
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Roller derby: Tight-knit with hard hits — Fallen Angels provide sense of team for Gilmore and Gammon
Audrey Gilmore and Jennifer Gammon played multiple sports in high school, and several years after their high school careers concluded, they still had still an itch for athletics. The Lewiston residents scratched it by colliding with other bodies while roller skating — they started playing roller derby for the Androscoggin Fallen Angels, who play their […]
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Let there be roller derby! Maine legalizes sport
Skate on! Roller derby is officially legal in Maine. An emergency bill that looked to expand the state’s roller-skating statute to allow physical contact during derby practices, clinics and bouts became law this week. Heather “Hard Dash” Steeves of Portland, who skates on the Maine Roller Derby’s internationally ranked all-star team, said there was never […]
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Law change would make roller derby legal in Maine
In Maine’s nine roller derby leagues, there are hip checks, bumps and hardcore skating by players with nicknames like Hard Dash and Frida Rockit. It’s a full-contact sport — though maybe not officially. Per roller-skating law in Maine — and there is actually roller-skating law in Maine — no contact is allowed. State Rep. Diane Russell, D-Portland, […]