Anthony OHara lifted M3-Wisconsin-Platteville-Blue to a 7-3 victory with a hat trick against M3-Northern Illinois University.

M3-Northern Illinois University's power play was ineffective against M3-Wisconsin-Platteville-Blue's penalty kill, which allowed one goal while shorthanded.

M3-Wisconsin-Platteville-Blue forced its penalty killing units to work especially hard during the game, picking up six minors and one major for 17 minutes in penalty time. The total exceeded the 12.0 minutes per game M3-Wisconsin-Platteville-Blue had been spending in the box. M3-Wisconsin-Platteville-Blue outdid its season average for goals scored. M3-Wisconsin-Platteville-Blue has scored at the pace of 4.3 goals per game during the current campaign. By firing 60 shots on goal, M3-Wisconsin-Platteville-Blue exceeded the 29.3 shots it averages per game this year.

M3-Wisconsin-Platteville-Blue additionally got points from Sam Dvorak, who also registered one goal and one assist and Abraham Liebel, who also registered one goal and two assists. Others who scored for M3-Wisconsin-Platteville-Blue included Casey Main and Benson Maxwell, who each put in one. In addition, M3-Wisconsin-Platteville-Blue received assists from Andrew Behrend, who had two.

M3-Northern Illinois University was led by Tyler Hilton, who tallied two goals. Hilton scored the first of his two goals at 9:30 into the first period to make the score 1-1. Jeremy Bilecki picked up the assist. Hilton's next tally made the score 3-3 with 2:29 left in the first period. An interference penalty on Charlie Groenier had put M3-Northern Illinois University on the power play. Bilecki assisted on the tally. M3-Northern Illinois University also got a goal from Cody Billeck as well. Other players who recorded assists for M3-Northern Illinois University were John Weems, who had two.

Bryton Melenas made 20 saves for M3-Wisconsin-Platteville-Blue on 23 shots. M3-Wisconsin-Platteville-Blue registered zero goals on one power play opportunities. Zachary Bugajsky took the loss and made 53 saves before being replaced by Jakob Tower who made zero saves. M3-Northern Illinois University incurred four minutes in penalty time with two minors.