WARSAW – It was setting up for a perfect storm in the Boneyard Saturday night. Then, the dreaded villain in black and white echoed the thunder.

The Bone City Rollers thought they had played the ideal trump card, bringing in speedy jammer Sneak A Kat to make a final run for points. Trailing 195-188 to Kokomo City of Fists with under a half-minute remaining, Kat had made the run Bone City needed, but the officials pointed out as the time ran out that Kat had cut the track. The penalty nullified all of Kat’s final points, and the four Kokomo earned in its final sprint around the track made the final score 199-188 in favor of the visitors.

The bout, witnessed by a standing room only crowd at Hansen’s Eastlake Skate Center, saw Bone City take command of much of the action in the first half. The aggressive and skilled skating of jammers Breckyn Urneck and Yukon Nail-Her helped Bone City take a sizeable first half lead.

Liked Ophelia nearly single-handedly willed Kokomo back into the action in the second half. A 34-point jam that had Ophelia skating for over two minutes of uninterrupted jamming rallied Kokomo from a 38-point hole to down just 148-144.

Kokomo would surge ahead with a 184-170 lead, but eight points from Bone City’s Twisted Princess and two more from Nail-Her brought the home side to within four.

Urneck and Ophelia were opposite each other late, and Ophelia’s lead jam 11 points trumped the eight points from Urneck, setting up the final moments.

The controversial call on Kat came surrounding a hit she took early in the second half. Coming off the track to be checked out, Kat was required to sit 20 minutes to coincide with concussion protocol. The manner in which Kat returned to the track was deemed to have cut the track – entering from out of bounds to better her position in relation to the positioning of the Kokomo skaters.

The bout was the first home meeting of the year for Bone City, to which the team skated twice on the road early in the year. Proceeds from the bout were given to the Rose Home in Syracuse. Bone City’s next home bout will be August 29 against the Deathrow Derby Dames.

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