After heavy thunderstorms ran through the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex on Saturday, the weather cleared just in time for the first-ever meeting between NPSL sides Denton Diablos and Fort Worth Vaqueros in the Chisholm Trail Clásico. After the storms flooded the Diablos home field at UNT, the game was moved to Denton High School.

It's only appropriate that the game was an old west style shootout with goals coming fast and furious.

"Great game, especially for the neutral, lots of goals, lots of offense," Vaqueros coach Nick Stavrou said. "I felt as the boys showed their character to be down in the second half and over-run a little bit to come back in the game and get the victory."

The Vaqueros controlled most of the first half possession and went into the locker room at halftime leading 2-1. Diablos did create a few chances on breakaway counter attacks by were denied by ex-FC Dallas goalkeeper Eduardo "Pollo" Cortes.

The Vaqueros difference maker, and Dallas Sidekicks standout, Jamie Lovegrove opened the scoring with a 30-yard blast in the 20th minute. Diablos quickly responded, earning a pk less than 10 minutes later. Diablos captain Sam Garza putting away the opportunity from the spot.

First goal for @DentonDiablos was a strong PK. Solid crowd reaction. Now let’s level this thing up in the second half! pic.twitter.com/9s8V6fZDdG — Matt Molina (@MattMMolina) May 19, 2019

But it was Lovegrove again just about a minute later, pouncing on a long rebound from a save by Diablos keeper Joe Weber to push the lead back to 2-1.

The 2nd half was a similar story in that Vaqueros again controlled possession with the Diablos counter-attacking. Yet it was FC Dallas Academy product Jalen James - who is still just as ridiculously fast now as he was when he was with FCD U19s - scored for Diablos on a lone breakaway from midfield, tieing the game at 2 in the 67th minute.

Then quickly pressing again, Nicky Hernandez got free on the Diablos left flank and curled in the go-ahead goal. 3-2 was the Diablos lead.

Vaqueros continued to control the pace and tied it up once more off the foot of Darren Mitchell from the left wing in the 66th. That was followed just two minutes later by a nice front line combo getting Cameron Brown free on net for the game winner.

From there Vaqueros, who started the game in a 4-2-3-1, dropped into a low block 4-5-1 shape and were able to hold the 4-3 lead and kill off the game.

"It was two good teams going at it," Stavrou said. "I'm proud of the guys in that they were able to hang with the young guys and pull to the finish line with a victory."

The teams meet again in leg 2 of the Chisholm Trail Clásico on June 1st at Farrington Field in Fort Worth. In a schedule quirk, that's the next game the Vaqueros will be playing. Diablos, however, have three games between now and then against Dallas City FC on May 21st - a makeup of the original season opener that was rained out - the Laredo Heat on May 24th, and Katy 1895 on May 26th.