If the Martinsville and Tunstall boys soccer teams didn’t have long enough to get mentally prepared and think about the Piedmont District Championship game, they were given another hour and 23 minutes on Thursday night to think about it, courtesy of Mother Nature.

The PD title game on Thursday at Martinsville High School was delayed until 7:23 p.m. due to thunderstorms in the Martinsville/Henry County area, which left the field at Dan Greene Memorial Stadium a soggy mess. After one half of play and a small portion of the second half, the game was officially called at 8:43 p.m. Martinsville, who was up 2-1 at the time, was named the PD tournament champions.

“We played really well I thought, overall,” Martinsville head coach Pete Scouras said. “You hate to win a game like that, because it was a real good match going on. It’s too bad it couldn’t have (continued), because it was exciting for everybody, but you can’t stop Mother Nature.”

In Thursday’s Piedmont District girls soccer tournament championship and third-place match, the only clock that mattered was the time frame Mother Nature set forth as storms rolled in and out of the Smith River Sports Complex like waves.

No. 1 seed Bassett was named the Piedmont District tournament champions after taking a 1-0 lead early in the second half on a corner kick. Lightning and an impending storm complete with tornado warning forced the coaches and tournament director Mike Minter to call the game.

The third place game between Patrick County and Martinsville was tied at 1-1, and Minter, Magna Vista’s Athletics Director, said the game would have a winner after it’s played today at 6 p.m. at the Smith River Sports Complex.