Despite having to fight off several power plays, Traverse City Hounds was able to defeat Alpena Street Cats, 4-1.

Traverse City Hounds was sparked by Patrick Rogowski, who had one goal. Rogowski scored 18:39 into the second period to make the score 2-0 Traverse City Hounds. Cam Fisher assisted on the tally.

Traverse City Hounds racked up the penalties in the contest, and ended with 12 minors and one major for 49 minutes in penalty time. Traverse City Hounds surpassed its season average of 27.0 penalty minutes per game. Traverse City Hounds excelled on the penalty kill, not giving up a single goal in 10 chances. Alpena Street Cats was unable to stop Traverse City Hounds from sending pucks towards the net, and Traverse City Hounds eventually piled up 33 shots on goal.

Traverse City Hounds also got points from Jacob Gillis, who also tallied one goal and one assist and Fisher, who also racked up one goal and one assist to lead the team in points. Matthew Passino also scored for Traverse City Hounds. Other players who recorded assists for Traverse City Hounds were Zach Early, Jordan Ruterbusch, Kevin Hansen, Alex Devries, and Tyler Thirlby, who each chipped in one.

Alpena Street Cats forced its penalty killing units to work especially hard during the game, picking up 10 minors and one major for 35 minutes in penalty time. The total exceeded the 15.0 minutes per game Alpena Street Cats had been spending in the box. Alpena Street Cats was held below its usual level of production. Alpena Street Cats puts an average of 4.5 pucks into the net per game.

Alpena Street Cats was led by Konstantin Khramov, who scored the team's only goal. Khramov scored 3:10 into the third period to make the score 2-1 Traverse City Hounds. Sergey Merzlov picked up the assist.

David Krejcik made 24 saves for Traverse City Hounds on 25 shots. Traverse City Hounds registered one goal on eight power play opportunities. For Traverse City Hounds, Thirlby was ejected from the game. Vladislav Graevski recorded 29 saves for Alpena Street Cats. Alpena Street Cats ran into serious disciplinary problems during the contest, and Vladimir Mokrousov was ejected from the game.