Colorado Eagles and Arizona Red Hawks were evenly matched throughout their contest, but Colorado Eagles made the most of its opportunities and won, 6-4.

Neither team gained more than a two-goal lead, and Lance Pennington's goal in the third period proved to be the difference maker.

Colorado Eagles' penalty kill excelled, as Colorado Eagles gave up one goal despite allowing six power plays.

Colorado Eagles was paced by Pennington, who had one goal and one assist. Pennington scored short handed 8:12 into the third period to make the score 5-4 Colorado Eagles. Colorado Eagles played down a man on Tanner Ulland's high sticking.

Colorado Eagles forced Arizona Red Hawks goalie Colton Pankiw to work between the pipes, taking 35 shots.

Colorado Eagles also got a goal from Charlie Bidgood as well. More assists for Colorado Eagles came via Corey Richardson, who had two and Kyle Arenson, CJ Miller, RJ Haenze, Cody Dettmann, and Nick Bucholtz, who contributed one a piece.

Arizona Red Hawks was helped by Anton Melin, who registered two goals and one assist. Melin scored the first of his two goals at 39 seconds into the third period to make the score 4-3 Colorado Eagles. Oscar Hagborg Olsson provided the assist. Melin's next tally made the score 4-4 with 16:51 left in the third period. Rasmus Alamaa assisted on the tally. Arizona Red Hawks additionally got points from Mitch Cobby, who also tallied one goal and two assists to lead the team in points and Hagborg Olsson, who also racked up one goal and one assist. In addition, Arizona Red Hawks received assists from Connor Rickabus, who had one and Mattias Marten, who had two.

Colorado Eagles' Tage Rustgi stopped 22 shots out of the 26 that he faced. Colorado Eagles incurred 14 minutes in penalty time with seven minors. Pankiw rejected 29 shots on goal for Arizona Red Hawks. Arizona Red Hawks incurred eight minutes in penalty time with four minors.