The second annual Glacier Park College Soccer Showcase went off with one hitch.

Zapped out Sunday night by a lightning storm, the exhibition took place Monday morning in front of an appreciative crowd at Flip Darly Memorial Field in Columbia Falls.

Air Force Academy prevailed over the Montana Grizzlies, 1-0, after three 30-minute “thirds.”

“You can have those in exhibitions,” event organizer O’Brien Byrd said. “It allows the coaches to coach more in between those thirds, instead of one halftime.”

So: bonus soccer was made available, and at a high level.

“It was hotly contested,” said Byrd. “Both teams had dangerous opportunities, defended well — it was counter-attacking soccer that takes your breath away. For a preseason exhibition, it looked like a final. They were going for it.”

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