Les Sexpos dominate Santa Cruz, win 257-83 in Waterloo

Les Sexpos answered Friday’s setback with a statement win Sunday morning, overwhelming Santa Cruz 257-83 at the Waterloo Memorial Recreation Complex. The 174-point margin closed Montreal’s Ontario playoff weekend on a far firmer note and turned a tight opening-round loss into a lopsided placement result.

The bout came in the 2026 WFTDA North America Playoffs - Ontario, a June 5-7 event in Waterloo, Ontario, hosted by Tri-City Roller Derby. Montreal entered as the No. 5 seed and Santa Cruz Boardwalk Bombshells as the No. 9 seed, with Flat Track Stats placing Les Sexpos 59th at 726.6 and Santa Cruz 172nd at 628.5. Sunday’s 10 a.m. Game 13 matched two teams trying to recover from opening-day defeats, and Montreal played like the higher-ranked side from the first whistle.

The scoreline also marked a sharp bounce after Montreal’s 161-135 loss to Greater Vancouver Summit on Friday. The change in margin from minus-26 to plus-174 was a 200-point swing across the same tournament, and that kind of reversal rarely happens without a cleaner, more controlled outing. Santa Cruz came in after a 234-92 loss to Connecticut, but the Bombshells never found a way to slow Montreal’s pace or recover once the Sexpos started pulling away.

That matters in a playoff bracket where every placement game carries consequences beyond the final score. WFTDA said the Ontario draw was arranged to avoid same-league semifinal matchups, adding another layer of pressure to each result in Waterloo. Montreal Roller Derby, founded in 2006 and based in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal, used Sunday to restore order after Friday’s stumble, and the blowout suggested a team better suited to dictating the terms of a matchup than chasing one. The next Waterloo test will come with Montreal carrying a much cleaner scoreboard and the kind of momentum that only a 257-83 finish can provide.