There’s defending a lead, and then there’s mentally preparing to defend a lead for about 19 hours.

Gallatin High’s girls soccer team held a 1-0 lead early in the second half of the second crosstown game of the season Thursday against Bozeman High before the contest was suspended due to lightning in the area around 6 p.m. The game could not have been resumed any earlier than 7:30 p.m., but darkness was a concern at the Bozeman Sports Park. The teams resumed play at 1 p.m. Friday, and by the time the final 36 minutes, 50 seconds of the game elapsed, the Raptors still maintained that 1-0 lead.

“I thought we had some good momentum last night and were playing well,” Gallatin head coach Joel Ganey said, “and then to have to interrupt that and come back, you're never going to pick up where you

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