Hawks vs. Americans - Game 59 · Monday February 11, 2008

Portland Winter Hawks gave the Americans a game in the first two periods until Tri-Cities slammed the door with three goals in the third, final score 7-3.

Taylor Procyshen scored a pair of goals and the Tri-City Americans won their seventh straight with a 7-3 Western Hockey League victory over Portland, moving the Americans four points ahead of rival Spokane in the U.S. Division and Western Conference standings.

Quoted from the Mid Columbia Tri City Herald:

“You can’t expect us to be good every night,” said Americans coach Don Nachbaur. “We poured a lot into last night’s game (7-2 win over Spokane). We did enough to get by tonight, and we ended up on the right side of the scoreboard.”

“The last time we had a chance to go up on Spokane, we lost to Portland,” said Americans captain T.J. Fast, who finished with three assists. “This time we came out, played hard and came out with the win. The guys have been making it easy on themselves, knowing their roles and playing to their strengths. It makes it easy on all of us and has made us successful”

Shaun Vey (1-2-3) and T.J. Fast (0-3-3) each had three point nights for the Americans while Taylor Procyshen chipped in two goals. Radek Meidl, Colton Yellow Horn and Johnny Lazo also added goals.

Portland got a two point game from rookie forward Nick Dietrich, including his first career WHL goal, to get Portland back into the game in the second period, after falling behind 3-0. Dietrich’s tip in goal off of a Keith Voytechek feed made it 3-1 and less than two minutes later Dietrich set up Travis Bobbee for a partial breakaway that Bobbee finished with a backhand over the blocker of Kyle Birch.

Tri City made it 4-2 before the end of the second period, and then added another before Matt Schmermund scored on a power-play wrist shot to make it 5-3. The Americans would add two more to round out the scoring in the final period.

Next up Tri City on the road.

Attendance: 3805
Toyota Center – Kennewick, Wa.

 SCORING  1  2  3  Total 
Americans  2  2  3  7
Hawks  0  2  1  3

SHOTS  1  2  3  Total 
Americans  17  16  12  45
Hawks  7  7  4  18

Game Description
Summary

Three Stars

Fast (TRI), Procyshen (TRI), Macaulay (TRI)

Fight Card

None.

— S. Blanchard

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US Divisional News · Friday January 18, 2008

— S. Blanchard

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