Long Beach Bombers had a three-goal lead after two periods and cruised the rest of the way en route to an 8-4 win over San Diego Gulls.

Filip Martinec had two goals and one assist to lead Long Beach Bombers. Martinec scored the first of his two goals at 6:28 into the first period to make the score 1-0 Long Beach Bombers. Tomas Nemeth provided the assist. Martinec's next tally made the score 2-0 Long Beach Bombers with 7:49 left in the first period. Nemeth assisted on the tally.

Long Beach Bombers forced San Diego Gulls' netminders to work between the pipes, finishing with 36 shots and forcing 28 saves. Eric Eidessen made seven stops and Filip Lukac made 21. Long Beach Bombers' goal total was higher than its season average. Long Beach Bombers averages 4.4 goals per game. Long Beach Bombers' penalty killing units received substantial work throughout the game as Long Beach Bombers finished with 22 penalty minutes.

Long Beach Bombers also got points from Marcus Viitanen, who also racked up two goals and one assist and Konstantin Kotkov, who also grabbed one goal and one assist. Long Beach Bombers also got a goal from Valeriy Ledovskiy as well. In addition, Long Beach Bombers received assists from Khalil East, who had two and Xavier Boissel-Dombreval, Johan Beatty, Mikael Lengmo, Filip Andreason, and JT Banard, who contributed one a piece.

San Diego Gulls forced Long Beach Bombers goalie Jakub Krejci to work between the pipes, taking 32 shots.

San Diego Gulls was led by Eric Baldwin, who tallied one goal and two assists. Baldwin scored 1:59 into the second period to make the score 3-1 Long Beach Bombers. Linus Kleeman provided the assist. San Diego Gulls additionally got points from Michael Leone, who also had one goal and one assist, Drew DePalma, who also registered one goal and two assists to lead the team in points, and Kalvis Ozols, who also racked up one goal and one assist. More assists for San Diego Gulls came via Nick Strohmeyer, who had one.

Krejci rejected 28 shots on goal for Long Beach Bombers. Long Beach Bombers registered one goal on three power play opportunities. San Diego Gulls totaled 20 minutes in penalty time with five minors and two majors and went 2-for-4 on the power play.