Blue Ridge crushes Lowcountry by 175 points at NC State Games

Blue Ridge turned Sunday’s 1:00 p.m. bout at Greensboro Sportsplex into the biggest blowout of the NC State Games weekend, hammering Lowcountry 233-58 for a 175-point margin. The Y’all Stars never let the game breathe, and the final score left no doubt about which roster was sharper from the first whistle.

The numbers backed up what the scoreboard showed. Blue Ridge entered the bout ranked 119th in Flat Track Stats with a 670.9 rating, while Lowcountry sat 258th at 570.3. After the 233-58 result, Blue Ridge picked up 12.4 rating points and Lowcountry dropped by the same amount, a sharp swing that matched the size of the gap on the track.

This was not a stand-alone outlier in a vacuum. Blue Ridge arrived off a 165-86 win over Carolina on June 27, while Lowcountry came in after a 161-86 loss to Carolina the same day. In a two-day tournament, that matters. Blue Ridge looked like a team that had already found its pace, while Lowcountry was dealing with a second straight matchup against a line that could keep pressure on packs and keep scoring trips coming.

The bout was part of the 2026 BODYARMOR State Games, which took over Greensboro and Guilford County from May 30 through June 28 and was set to welcome more than 11,000 athletes across the event. Roller derby ran June 27-28 at Greensboro Sportsplex, and Relentless Roller Derby hosted the State Games derby for the second straight year. Its field included 11 Women’s Flat Track Derby Association teams from North Carolina and South Carolina, plus an expo game featuring juniors skaters from across the state.

Blue Ridge, based in Asheville, has been a WFTDA member since March 1, 2012. Lowcountry HighRollers is based in Charleston, South Carolina, and both teams came out of the WFTDA’s North America South region, which made the matchup a direct regional measuring stick as much as a tournament game. On this day, Blue Ridge made the measurement look easy. The 233-point output and 58-point defensive total were the clearest sign of the weekend that one team was executing at a far higher level than the other.