A six-goal first period deficit cost San Diego Gulls, which could not recover and fell to Long Beach Bombers, 8-1.

Long Beach Bombers got the win thanks to a great game by Blake Sundy, who had two goals and one assist. Sundy scored the first of his two goals at 8:02 into the first period to make the score 2-0 Long Beach Bombers. Xavier Boissel-Dombreval picked up the assist. Sundy's next tally made the score 3-0 Long Beach Bombers with 8:20 left in the first period. Johan Beatty assisted on the tally.

Long Beach Bombers' Talon Miller was a brick wall in net, as he came up with 32 saves and let only one puck past him. Miller certainly lowered his goals against average, which was 3.14 entering the contest.

Long Beach Bombers stifled San Diego Gulls' power play, and did not give up a single goal while down a man. Long Beach Bombers' offense rang up 54 shots on San Diego Gulls' net. Long Beach Bombers surpassed its usual scoring output this season. This season, Long Beach Bombers averages 5.0 goals per contest.

Long Beach Bombers also got points from Marcus Viitanen, who also tallied one goal and three assists to lead the team in points, Beatty, who also registered one goal and two assists, Martin Vachal, who also racked up two goals and one assist, and Filip Martinec, who also had one goal and one assist. Valeriy Ledovskiy also scored for Long Beach Bombers. More assists for Long Beach Bombers came via Jonas Gronlund, who had two and Jack Kelly, Tomas Nemeth, Jesse Simone, Daniel Skoglund, and Mikael Lengmo, who contributed one each.

San Diego Gulls was held below its usual level of production. San Diego Gulls puts an average of 3.1 pucks into the net per game. San Diego Gulls' offense rang up 33 shots on Long Beach Bombers' net.

Long Beach Bombers totaled 17 minutes in penalty time with six minors and one major and went 1-for-5 on the power play. San Diego Gulls' Filip Lukac stopped 46 shots out of the 54 that he faced. San Diego Gulls totaled 21 minutes in penalty time with eight minors and one major and went 0-for-3 on the power play.