The Battle Creek Crunch stumbled through their first season. A losing record coupled with ownership issues was not the idealseason. Besides the two freebie wins against the traveling Revolution, the Crunch managed to win at Lehigh Valley and at Marion. The Crunch were outscored 266-158 in the second half of their first ten games. The team made the playoffs by virtue of a tiebreaker with Marion. Port Hurom demolished the Crunch, 74-3.