Go to the BUY TICKETS page to buy your tickets for just £7 in advance! Come and join us for a bit of Summer Shovin’!

A big thanks to Andrew Hayward for the photos on the poster – we had a really fun photo shoot! Also a big thanks to Coletta. L. Damage for the poster design.

Our rookie Wenches were brilliant at blocking, jamming, keeping their teams together and getting the audience involved in cheering them on.

The wonderful Swansea City Slayers have published the awards for the mixed scrim, Dropkick Molly got Best Jammer!

For the main bout, the Wenches were predicted to win against Swansea City Slayers by a score of 180 : 100.

Although both teams beat their predictions, the start of the bout was a bit shaky for the Wenches. An early power jam for the home team meant that the Slayers had a 40 point lead within the first five minutes.

Both teams were clearly skilled and determined to win which meant there were a lot of lead changes through the middle of the first period. Thanks to some solid tactics from Duchess of Crutches (Bench Manager), the Wenches had pulled ahead and were increasing their lead by half time.

In the second period the jams tended to be fast-paced with both the Wenches and the Slayers fielding very strong and agile blockers. Connie Stitch-up (Lineup Manager) fielded excellent skater combinations throughout. It was exciting to see the Wenches forming some unbreakable walls and preventing the opposing jammer from making even her initial pass in multiple jams.

The Wench jammers were nimble and fast, skating straight through the pack, landing apex jumps and generally racking up the points.

Overall, the bout was fairly foul-free for both teams, with few power jams and the maximum amount of players on track for most of the time.

At the final whistle, Portsmouth Roller Wenches had beaten Swansea City Slayers by 214 to 107. It was a fantastic bout, with a brilliant score for both teams, and we’ve already been challenged to a re-match!

Swansea City Slayers were excellent hosts, and even had medals for the awards which went to:

Best Blocker
Brookslide	Lady Loco
Best Jammer
Peggy Peril	Pixy of Pain
Most Valuable Player
Halcyon Daze	Fearne Rotton

All photos in this post are courtesy of Raw Speed, the Wenches’ official photographer.

The Line-up:

The next public bout for Portsmouth Roller Wenches is at home, against Kent Roller Girls on Saturday 1^st June. Come along and join us for a bit of Summer Shovin’!

Many thanks to reporter Lindsay Walsh for his great article, and for coming to watch us and chat to us! The article also includes photographs from our excellent official photographer Andrew Hayward aka Raw Speed.

New open sessions to start soon:

From our Facebook page:“Exciting News!

We are starting an open skating session on a Tuesday evening 8 till 10 pm at Highbury College Cosham. This is starting from Tuesday 14th May and will run till September.

You will need your own skates, Helmet, Knee pads, Elbow pads, Wrist Guards and Mouth guard to take part in the session.

This session is open to men and women, you just have to be over 18!

The cost is £6.00 per session, it’s a fun session, lots of games and skating skills, there will be members of the A team available to give you advice and help with your skating. It’s meant as something to get you started, but its not a freshmeat course. That’s still going to start in September hopefully.

We are looking into getting a Merby Team started so would welcome anyone that wanted to join.”

Portsmouth Roller Wenches, Hampshire’s first roller derby league, are set to face their biggest challenge yet at Havant Leisure Centre on Saturday 23rd March. Batter-C Power, the third team of the London Roller Girls, whose first team are one of the best in Europe, will be heading down south for a bout not to be missed!

“Eggsterminate” will be the first of four themed bouts that the Wenches will be hosting this year, after an unbeaten first season in 2012.

If you are yet to witness the Wenches in action, then this is your chance to support your local roller derby team and see these fast, furious females in action.

Click here to buy tickets, and become a fan on Facebook to keep up to date with all the team news and fixtures.”

McMurphy says: “I couldn’t be more proud, happy and honoured to have been asked to join the Queens crew as an endorsed skater. I couldn’t think of a better brand to be associated with; they’re a derby owned business, and this new step to sponsor skaters from up and coming teams shows QOTSB’s commitment to helping develop the roller derby scene from the ground up. I can’t wait to represent both QOTSB and the Wenches in this partnership.

This couldn’t come at a better time for the Portsmouth Roller Wenches as we have already embarked on a hugely ambitious season of challenging bouts, packed into a very busy schedule. I hope this shines a light on what is sure to be the year of the Wench!”

Don’t forget to buy your ticket for our upcoming bout against London Rollergirls BatterC Power; we’ll even have a raffle prize from QOTSB up for grabs.

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Our Next Bout is on Sunday 10th February 2013 vs Croydon Roller Derby at their home, Monks Hill Sports Centre in South Croydon.

Check out the Facebook event page here: https://www.facebook.com/events/475661862471074/?ref=ts&fref=ts

Buy tickets here: http://www.croydonrollerderby.co.uk/CRDvsPRW.html

In other Wench news, we have lots to be happy about!

First of all, congratulations to our fearsome blocker/jammer Hel On who has given birth to a beautiful baby future Wench! We hope to see Hel On back on track soon and we are all very happy for her!

Also last week we had our second brood of Wenchlings pass their minimum skills! Our first practice all together is tonight and we’re all really excited to have expanded the good ship Wench!

One piece of sad Wench news though is that our solid blocker with a booty of steel Atomic Affliction has had to leave the team due to pursuing her career in something important and sciency! She’ll always be a Wench though and we wish her well as she finds a new team to join (please don’t hit us tooo hard if we come up against you in the future, Atomic!) xx

• 25/03/2012PRW vs Brighton Bruisers - Closed Doors
• 08/04/2012Hundred Jams War tournament, Rouen France. Mixed Team Bouts
• 14/04/2012PRW vs Windsor Roller Girls - Closed Door
• 05/05/2012PRW & Birmingham Blitz Dames - Mixed Scrim
• 20/05/2012PRW vs Milton Keynes Grid City Division - Closed Doors
• 07/07/2012PRW vs Wiltshire Roller Girls - Closed Door
• 04/08/2012 5:00 pmPRW vs Team Sealand - Home Bout
• 09/09/2012PRW vs Kent Roller Girls - Closed Door
• 29/09/2012PRW vs Birmingham Blitz Dames - Home Bout
• 21/10/2012PRW vs Big Bucks High Rollers - Home Bout
• 17/11/2012PRW vs Leicester Raggy Dollz - Away Bout
• 09/12/2012PRW vs Dorset Roller Girls - Closed Door

Portsmouth Roller Wenches are UNDEFEATED having won all 4 of our open bouts in 2012! So keep following us for more exciting news!

Portsmouth Roller Wenches and Leicester Raggy Dollz, 17th November 2012

Kent proved to be tough and hard hitting opponents with incredibly tight walls, excellent communication and clear strategy. We all commented afterwards how united they seemed as a team, which held them together magnetised on the track and in real danger of threatening our game. However, despite the amount of knocks we all took (including a few scrapes with the wall in our too-small practice space) both teams kept up the fun and laughter banter on-track in a very close and hard fought game.

We also had some real highlights as a team, most notably with some absolutely marvellous play from our newer wenches such as Hot Squeals and Malibash Stacie who finally got to show their stuff in competitive play, but also with flashes of team brilliance and machine-like cohesion that we’ll be critically examining to build upon. On the flipside we had also the impossibly unlucky farcical situation of having TWO of our jammers being felled by toe-stops falling out on them mid-jam! Our own Kiwi superstar Psyclone Destroyer also suffered a sprained shoulder from a hard fall in the game, and we’re sending our healing derby love to her.

Our closed bout conditions mean we unfortunately cannot publically release the score from this game, however you definitely do not want to miss when PRW and KRG go head to head in a public rematch, that we’re crossing all our fingers and toes to happen very soon. We’re just sorry our doors were closed for the initial face-off!
Many, many thanks to the refs and NSOs, some of whom travelled to kindly join us on the day. We couldn’t do any of this without you. Massive love to our friends the Kent Roller Girls for making this one of the friendliest and fun games we’ve had to date.

Bout awards:

KENT

• Best Jammer: Fairy Quad Mother
• Best Blocker: Demi Lition
• Most Valuable Player: Major Collision

PORTSMOUTH

• Best Jammer: Psyclone Destroy’her
• Best Blocker: Peggy Peril
• Most Valuable Player: R.I.P. McMurphy

Epic write-up by PRW’s R.I.P. McMurphy

Portsmouth Roller Wenches won their first public home game against Team Sealand 158-125!!

Thank you to the HUGE turnout that came today, your support it valued by all of us. Let’s keep the derby love growing, let’s make 29th September (our next home bout) even more spectacular!

(detailed write up and more pics to follow)