Thousands of students filled the Fishers Event Center on Tuesday morning for the Indy Fuel’s annual Education Day game. They saw a lot of scoring, but the home team lost as the Cincinnati Cyclones held on for a 7-5 ECHL win.

The 10:30 a.m. game drew a sellout crowd of 6,726. The score was tied four times and the lead changed three times.

Indy scored first. Kyler Kupka put the Fuel ahead 1-0 just 1:13 into the game, with an assist from Harrison Israels. Cincinnati answered with goals from Ryan Kirwan at 6:50 and Simon Labelle at 8:00 to go ahead 2-1.

The Fuel then scored twice late in the first period. Perreault tied the game at 17:37. Less than a minute later, Mitchell Hoelscher was awarded a penalty shot and beat Cyclones goalie Timofei Obvintsev to give Indy a 3-2 lead after one period.

Both teams kept trading goals in the second. Mitton tied it for Cincinnati at 7:16. Jacob Perreault scored his second goal of the game on a power play at 11:38 to put Indy back in front 4-3, with assists from Hoelscher and Cody Laskosky. Matt Anderson tied it again at 14:06.

Former Fuel forward Sahil Panwar then put Cincinnati ahead for good, scoring at 17:44 of the second to make it 5-4. Late in the period, Cincinnati’s Liam Kidney and Indy’s Lane Brockhoff were each given fighting majors.

Kirwan scored his second goal 2:05 into the third period to stretch the lead to 6-4. Indy pulled its goalie for an extra attacker, and Laskosky scored with 34 seconds left to cut the lead to 6-5, assisted by Kupka and Aaron Bohlinger. Mitton then scored into the empty net at 19:48 to seal the win.

Kirwan had two goals and an assist and was named the game’s first star. Labelle, with a goal and an assist, was the second star. Perreault, who scored twice for the Fuel, was the third star. Mitton also had two goals and an assist for Cincinnati, and Sahil Panwar had a goal and two assists. Hoelscher led Indy with a goal and two assists.

Cincinnati outshot Indy 29-26. Obvintsev made 21 saves to get the win. Indy’s Adam Gajan stopped 22 of 28 shots and took the loss.

Indy scored on two of its five power plays. Cincinnati went 0-for-5.

The Fuel and Cyclones play again Sunday at 4 p.m. at the Fishers Event Center for Toy Story Family Fun Day.