The Cedar Rapids RoughRiders were trimmed by the Bloomington Thunder, 4-3, in a USHL game before 1,925 fans Friday night at the Ice Arena.

Bloomington jumped to a 3-1 lead in the first period and made it 4-1 in the second period before the RoughRiders staged a comeback.

Ross Colton scored his second goal of the game to pull Cedar Rapids within 4-2 in the second period. Matt Goslewski pulled the RoughRiders within 4-3 with 23 seconds left in the contest, but the home team ran out of time and could not score again.

Ben Blacker made 25 saves for the RoughRiders.

Cedar Rapids fell to 5-3-1 for the season for 11 points. Bloomington raised its mark to 6-5-0 for 12 points.

Bloomington 3 1 0 - 4

RoughRiders 1 1 1 - 3

B - Mitchell Chaffee (Vladislav Dzhioshvili, Butrus Ghafari)

B - Van Barr (Ghafari)

RR - Ross Colton (Justin Cole, Jack Ahcan)

B - Chaffee (Steve Merl, Barr)

B - Blake Gober (Myles Cunningham, Ghafari)

RR - Colton (Luke Morgan) (power play)

RR - Matt Goslewski (Cal Burke, Ahcan)