The girls had another game today. It was the same as previous games: complete slaughter. At one point, the girls were up in the first set something like 18-3. The coach, being an individual of character, always starts pulling out his big hitters when it’s obvious where the game is going, but at the same time, he wants to give them court time. (Still, when the poor opponents can’t even return an underhand serve after the coach pulled our best server while she was serving, what’s the quality of play they get?)

This was a private school, the private school in the area. Eighth-grade tuition is $21,510. The team in Spartanburg we beat mercilessly was also from a private school, but its tuition was only something like $17k a year. For whatever reason, one would think they would have better teams. And they probably do: it turns out that in most of these private schools that also include a high school, the eighth graders get shuttled up to the high school JV or even varsity team, so our girls are playing sixth and seventh graders.

Today was only a scrimmage game, though. It doesn’t count toward anyone’s record. Still, if it was only a scrimmage, why couldn’t we scrimmage with the JV or even varsity team?