Ravensburg Towerstars took it 4-2 over EC Bad Nauheim in regulation, and the third period settled it. After coughing up a two-goal cushion in the middle frame, the Towerstars answered with the only two goals of the final twenty.
Ravensburg opened the scoring at 18 and pushed it to 2-0 at 27. Bad Nauheim then struck twice in a two-minute window, at 30 and 32, to level at 2-2 — the turning point came the other way, with Ravensburg going back ahead at 42 and closing it out at 54.
The headline number is the period split: 1-0, 1-2, 2-0. Ravensburg's clean third period, with the visitors held off the board after 32 minutes, is what separated the teams on a night both sides scored in bunches.