Jordan Ruterbusch racked up two points to lead Traverse City Hounds to a 6-3 victory over Alpena Street Cats.

Traverse City Hounds forced Alpena Street Cats' goalies to work hard to keep the puck out of the net, getting 48 shots and forcing 42 saves. Vlad Salangin made 41 stops and Vladislav Graevski made one. Traverse City Hounds stifled Alpena Street Cats' power play, and did not give up a single goal while down a man. Traverse City Hounds could not produce up to it normal offensive output. Traverse City Hounds puts an average of 8.8 pucks into the net per game.

Traverse City Hounds also got points from Tyler Thirlby, who also had one goal and one assist, Cam Fisher, who also registered one goal and one assist, and Josh Smith, who also finished with one goal and one assist. Traverse City Hounds also got a goal from Scott Luca as well. In addition, Traverse City Hounds received assists from Kevin Hansen and Matthew Passino, who contributed one a piece.

Alpena Street Cats was held below its usual level of production. Alpena Street Cats averages 5.8 goals per game.

Alpena Street Cats was led by Sergey Deev, who racked up one goal and one assist. Deev scored 2:14 into the third period to make the score 3-2 Alpena Street Cats. Andrei Yanovich assisted on the tally. Tommy Hrynkiw also scored for Alpena Street Cats. Other players who recorded assists for Alpena Street Cats were Andrei Kiselev, who had one.

David Krejcik made 15 saves for Traverse City Hounds on 18 shots. Traverse City Hounds incurred eight minutes in penalty time with four minors. Alpena Street Cats incurred eight minutes in penalty time with four minors.