Holstein Kiel loses away game to Hildesheim Invaders with 20:23. The Canes couldn't turn the game around and lost the connection to the top teams in the GFL-North division. After clear defeats against the Dresden Monarchs and the Potsdam Royals, the Canes brought the third undefeated team in the North to the edge of a defeat, but couldn't turn a ten-point lead into a win. The Canes earn a ten-point lead directly with the first drive, as quarterback PJ Settles throws a 43-yard pass to his tight end Till Nowaczyk for his first GFL touchdown in the Invaders' end zone. Although Hildesheim equalized in direct counterplay through a pass from their quarterback Nelson Hughes to Lennart Stukenborg, in the second quarter Anousheh Fulford scored a field goal and his receiver Klaas Sengstacke, who caught a 26-yard pass from Settles, increased the Canes' lead to 17:7. Just before the break, the hosts shortened the gap after a 97-yard drive to 14:17 at halftime. At the start of the third quarter, Fulford scored a field goal from 44 yards to give the Canes a 20:14 lead – it would be the last points for the Canes. The Invaders took the game with a big play: in the third attempt and 19 yards at the Kieler 48-yard line, the Hildesheimer offense line held off the Kieler pressure, Paul Terjung improved a Hughes pass to equalize and after the extra point, the Lower Saxons were leading 21:20 at the end of the third quarter. The Canes had twelve minutes to turn the game around, but a fumble on a snap at their own 11-yard line stifled all hopes. Settles could only secure the lost ball in his own end zone, the result: safety, two points for the Invaders and possession for the guests. It was the turning point – in the following drives, nothing happened.