Logan Cooley (Pittsburgh, Pa.) opened the scoring at 8:56 of the first period. Jimmy Snuggerud (Chaska, Minn.) won a puck battle in the right corner and found Cutter Gauthier (Scottsdale, Ariz.) at the red line. He drove the net and fed a cross-crease pass to set up Cooley, who was left open on the far side for his 20th goal of the season.

The Phantoms got a pair of goals from Adam Ingram to take a 2-1 lead after 20 minutes of play. After Kyle Bettens took the first shot, Ingram chopped at a bouncing puck that found its way past Tyler Muszelik (Long Valley, N.J.) to even the score. Ingram added another second-chance goal, connecting on an opportunity after a Jaden Grant shot to give Youngstown a lead late in the first. 

The Phantoms' Stiven Sardarian doubled the lead to 3-1 after he crashed the net and batted home a rebound at 3:04 of the second. Trey Taylor netted a fourth straight goal for the visitors to extend the lead to three heading into the third period. 

Cooley netted his second of the game, a power-play marker, less than two minutes into the final frame. Gauthier won a draw back to Hunter Brzustewicz (Washington Twp., Mich.) who led Cooley into the offensive zone. He took a wrister from the center point that got over the blocker of Kyle Chauvette to cut the deficit to 4-2.  

Tyler Duke (Strongsville, Ohio) pulled the U18s within a score with a wrister from the slot near the halfway mark of the third. The defenseman's second goal of the year was set up by Charlie Leddy (Fairfield, Conn.) and Snuggerud.