Owner David Goins, CEO Creighton LaRue and COO Elizabeth Pribyl) altered that a bit to capitalize on the release that summer of the motion picture Twister.
The team went 2–4 as "wards of the league", and was not eliminated from the playoff hunt until a 7–4 loss to Monterrey La Raza on September 20, 1996 in front of a club-record crowd of 9,315 (many enticed by $5 general-admission tickets).
Having spent most of their energy and having lost team captain and leading scorer Mariano Bollella to a knee injury late in the second game spelled doom for the Twisters in the fifteen-minute tiebreaker as they fell 4–1.
What was left of its assets were purchased in the winter of 1998 by MorSports, Inc., owners of the city's A-League outdoor soccer franchise, the Indiana Blast.
MorSports intended to enter the club in the National Professional Soccer League, and, in fact, held a press conference announcing those intentions on February 18, 1998.