Even with the early morning becoming earlier due to bad roads, only five practices, and an 8:00 start time, CIViC 18's started their 2018 club season with a 25-21, 19-25, 15-5 win over Crush from the Columbus/Seymour area of Indiana. As I worked up a scouting report for Gretchen, I thought player-for-player, CIViC was the better team; however, the Crush coaches are really good, they already had one weekend of good competition, they practice more often than us (who doesn't), and while on paper we looked to have better players, half the team are sophomores from 4A schools where they might be good but the players ahead of them are even better due to experience.