Salt City Roller Derby beats Roc City 169-108 in day one win

Salt City Roller Derby opened the Granite Skate Invitational with a 169-108 win over Roc City Roller Derby at JFK Coliseum in Manchester, New Hampshire. The result came in Game 1 on day one, with NH Roller Derby posting the matchup for Saturday, July 18, 2026 at 10 AM.

The 61-point margin was the kind of line that tells you more than just who won. In flat track roller derby, a spread that large usually means Salt City did not just land a few big jam scores, it held the pack long enough to keep Roc City from building any sustained answer. Roc City still cleared 100 points, so this was not a shutdown, but Salt City’s 169 points pointed to a team that kept converting chances and stacking pressure throughout the opening game.

The invitational itself ran July 18-19, 2026 from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm, and NH Roller Derby called it its inaugural Granite Skate Invitational. In a Facebook post, the host described the event as a 2-day, 4 WFTDA League, 7-game invitational, which gives the day-one result added weight: this was the first marker in a full weekend of Northeast derby, not a one-off showcase.

NH Roller Derby’s place in the event matters, too. WFTDA describes New Hampshire Roller Derby as the original women’s flat track roller derby league in New Hampshire and a skater-run nonprofit 501(c)(3). That fits the setting at JFK Coliseum, where the Granite Skate Invitational gave traveling programs a rare mid-summer look at how these leagues stack up when the scoreboard starts moving fast.

Roc City brought its usual travel-team footprint into the tournament. The Roc Stars play across North America, primarily in the New York/New England area, and the league describes itself as a nonprofit amateur athletic organization. Salt City, meanwhile, carries the “Strong – Proud – Focused” identity on its own site and already had another date circled on the calendar, a home-sanctioned bout against Dirty Jersey Roller Derby on July 29, 2026.

That makes the opening win more than a tidy score graphic. For Salt City, it was a statement on the road in Manchester, and for fans tracking the season, it set up a quick turn back home to Syracuse, where the next chance to measure that momentum comes on July 29.