Kendal Craig had two goals and one assist to lead El Paso Rhinos to an 8-2 victory over Dallas Snipers.

Dallas Snipers' power play was ineffective against El Paso Rhinos' penalty kill, which allowed zero goals while shorthanded.

Referees had their hands full with a major incident at 5:34 into the second period. Four fighting penalties were dished out along with three game misconducts.

El Paso Rhinos racked up the penalties in the contest, and ended with four minors and five majors for 63 minutes in penalty time. El Paso Rhinos had been averaging 26.0 minutes in penalties per game. El Paso Rhinos' penalty kill was spotless, allowing no goals on six Dallas Snipers power plays. El Paso Rhinos forced Dallas Snipers goalie Sander Berg to work between the pipes, taking 35 shots.

El Paso Rhinos additionally got points from Jordan Cullum, who also finished with one goal and one assist. El Paso Rhinos also got a goal from Bryton Tomko as well. More assists for El Paso Rhinos came via Brennan Johnsson, who had three and Robert Horak, David Brancik, Lukas Znosko, and Sebastian Borg, who contributed one each.

Dallas Snipers was often in penalty trouble, totaling four minors and three majors for 23 minutes in penalty time. Dallas Snipers surpassed its season average of 20.0 penalty minutes per game. Dallas Snipers was held below its usual level of production. Dallas Snipers puts an average of 4.1 pucks into the net per game. Dallas Snipers did not challenge the opposing netminder, only getting 11 shots on net to force nine saves.

Dallas Snipers was led by Trent Williams, who racked up one goal. Williams scored short handed 14:47 into the first period to make the score 1-1. Dallas Snipers played down a man on Yevgeni Nikolaev's hooking. Nikkita Perviakov also scored for Dallas Snipers.

Alek Lazarski made nine saves for El Paso Rhinos on 11 shots. El Paso Rhinos registered one goal on four power play opportunities. Team's Gavin Abbott and John Bowen were slapped with misconducts and ejected from the game. Berg recorded 27 saves for Dallas Snipers.