Fayetteville rebounds with 199-101 rout of Soda City Jerks

Fayetteville answered an earlier NC State Games loss with a 199-101 rout of CRD: Soda City Jerks, putting up the biggest offensive total on the Sunday schedule in Greensboro, North Carolina. The 98-point margin gave Fayetteville a clean reset in the tournament’s Sunday morning slot and turned a difficult start into a statement win.

The scoreboard told the story of the adjustment. Fayetteville’s offense kept building long scoring runs, while the pack held Soda City from putting together a meaningful counterpunch. In a game that produced 300 combined points, Fayetteville’s 199 showed a team skating with far more pace and confidence than it had in the earlier setback, and Soda City’s 101 was enough to avoid a complete collapse but not enough to change the shape of the bout.

Flat Track Stats listed Fayetteville at 359th with a 516.4 rating before the game, then showed a 44.0-point jump afterward, the largest gain among the weekend slate visible in the tournament. Soda City dropped by the same amount. The rating swing matched the margin on the track and underlined how decisive the result was for both teams.

That kind of Sunday rebound matters in tournament play because it can change the tone of an entire weekend. Fayetteville used offense as its clearest measure of adjustment after the earlier loss, and the 199-point outburst suggested cleaner jams, better pack control, and fewer wasted chances than in the opener. For Soda City Jerks, the defeat left little doubt that Fayetteville had the sharper pace and the stronger finishing burst when the tournament’s final day arrived.