Garrett Torrico lifted the M3-Tampa-University of Spartans to a 9-1 victory with a hat trick against M3-East Carolina University.

Torrico notched his first tally 4:54 into the second period. He then added goals at 12:36 into the third and at 17:11 into the third.

M3-Tampa-University of's Christian Hamlett was a brick wall in net, as he came up with 26 saves and let only one puck past him. Hamlett certainly lowered his goals against average, which was 2.58 entering the contest.

M3-East Carolina University fell victim to a deadly the Spartans power play, which ripped M3-East Carolina University for five goals.

M3-Tampa-University of stifled M3-East Carolina University's power play, and did not give up a single goal while down a man. The Spartans' offense was clicking better than usual and put 65 shots on goal during the game, better than the 17.1 shots per game they average.

M3-Tampa-University of additionally got points from Konstantin Zuev, who also registered one goal and one assist, Nicholas Martin, who also tallied one goal and one assist, and Matt Antonacci, who also racked up one goal and two assists. M3-Tampa-University of also got a goal from Bryan Bellemore as well. In addition, M3-Tampa-University of received assists from Corey Tudor, who had three, Kyler Wujciga, Logan Underwood, and Jared Eckert, who each chipped in one, and Joshua Santoro and Matt Fenby, who contributed two each.

M3-East Carolina University forced its penalty killing units to work especially hard during the game, picking up seven minors and one major for 39 minutes in penalty time. The total exceeded the 27.0 minutes per game M3-East Carolina University had been spending in the box. M3-East Carolina University was held below its usual level of production. M3-East Carolina University averages 4.8 goals per game.

M3-East Carolina University was led by Rob Casey, who scored the team's only goal. Casey scored 4:14 into the second period to make the score 1-0 M3-East Carolina University. Matthew Zimmerman assisted on the tally.

M3-Tampa-University of incurred eight minutes in penalty time with four minors. Timothy Helmer-hall rejected 56 shots on goal for M3-East Carolina University. M3-East Carolina University registered zero goals on three power play opportunities. M3-East Carolina University ran into serious disciplinary problems during the contest, and Brett Murch was ejected from the game.