Erik Ahlen racked up two points to lead Salt Lake City Moose to a 5-2 victory over Colorado RoughRiders.

After the loss made the series score 1-0 in the best of three series, Colorado RoughRiders faces elimination next time out.

Salt Lake City Moose forced Colorado RoughRiders' netminders to work all game long, totaling 35 shots and forcing 30 saves. Ashton Opperman made 16 stops and Kirill Pustovalov made 14.

Salt Lake City Moose additionally got points from Ross Gann, who also registered one goal and one assist. Devan Beck also scored for Salt Lake City Moose. In addition, Salt Lake City Moose received assists from Jurijs Moiseicenko, Jonathan Svensson, and Ryan Solomon, who each chipped in one and Dan Veselovsky and Dmitry Kuznetsov, who contributed two each.

Colorado RoughRiders' offense rang up 38 shots on Salt Lake City Moose's net.

Colorado RoughRiders was led by Casey Riccatone, who registered one goal. Riccatone scored 2:07 into the second period to make the score 2-1 Salt Lake City Moose. Stephen Dora assisted on the tally. Colorado RoughRiders also got a goal from Devon Pilkington as well. More assists for Colorado RoughRiders came via Blake Couture, who had one.

Brad Robertson recorded 36 saves for Salt Lake City Moose. Salt Lake City Moose totaled 21 minutes in penalty time with three minors and one major and went 1-for-4 on the power play. Colorado RoughRiders totaled 13 minutes in penalty time with four minors and one major and went 1-for-3 on the power play.