IF Frisk Asker took it 5-3 at IHK Sparta Sarpsborg in regulation, and the game was effectively framed in the opening twenty minutes. Two unanswered goals inside the first nine minutes gave the visitors a cushion they never surrendered.
Frisk led 0-2 after the first and 1-3 after the second, with Sparta getting on the board at 35 minutes before the visitors answered at 38. The third was an even 2-2 split, but the two Frisk goals at 42 and 44 restored the margin before Sparta's late pair at 48 and 50 arrived too deep in the period to matter.
Five goals on the road, with scoring in all three periods, is the number that carries this one. Sparta outscored Frisk only once across the three frames and never led.