Dave Trimmer

The Spokane Chiefs scored early and often, rolling to a 6-1 win over the Victoria Royals in a Western Hockey League game Wednesday night, completing a perfect seven-game homestand.

Seriously, the Spokane Chiefs have a six-game winning streak, but it’s really not pretty. The Chiefs fell behind for the fifth straight game but this time it didn’t take a last-minute rally for them to run their season-opening home winning streak to seven, beating Everett 3-2 before 7,739 fans at the Arena Saturday night.

Seriously, the Spokane Chiefs have a six-game winning streak, but it’s really not pretty. The Chiefs fell behind for the fifth straight game but this time it didn’t take a last-minute rally for them to run their season-opening home winning streak to seven, beating Everett 3-2 before 7,739 fans at the Arena Saturday night.

The Spokane Chiefs might not count their lines, but they can certainly count their rallies. For a third straight game the Chiefs trailed entering the third period but pulled out a victory.

The Spokane Chiefs might not count their lines, but they can certainly count their rallies.

North Central doesn’t have a senior on its boys cross country team, but it does have a system.

The Spokane Chiefs had a pretty impressive hat trick this week – coming from behind to win three Western Hockey League games. This time they broke through with three third-period goals against Everett to pull out a 3-1 win before 5,421 fans Saturday night at the Arena.

The Spokane Chiefs had a pretty impressive hat trick this week – coming from behind to win three Western Hockey League games.

Once again the Spokane Chiefs left their coach wanting but the other team reeling.

Allison Keenan has been running strongly for three seasons as those around her suffered an assortment of injuries or maladies that derailed Lewis and Clark’s expectations of contending for a Greater Spokane League girls cross country championship. But those around her ran strongly on a chilly Wednesday afternoon at Finch Arboretum, which sends the undefeated Tigers into a showdown next week against Central Valley (6-0) at CV.

Given enough chances something had to give and, for the Spokane Chiefs, it was the Brandon Wheat Kings. Dominik Uher had an easy conversion of a Steven Kuhn pass with 3 minutes, 42 seconds to play to rally the Chiefs to a 4-3 win before 3,214 fans at the Arena Wednesday night.

Given enough chances something had to give and, for the Spokane Chiefs, it was the Brandon Wheat Kings.

It might seem Shane Proctor is an overnight sensation – and he’s probably been more sensational than rodeo fans can even imagine – but that’s not the case at all. The 26-year-old from Grand Coulee, who is sitting on top of the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association bull riding standings, is a successful five-year veteran of the Professional Bull Riders, headed to his fifth-straight finals in Las Vegas at the end of the month in eighth place with $245,092.

The Kelowna Rockets rang a shot off the goal post a minute into their game against the Spokane Chiefs Saturday night, but that was the only noise they made. The Chiefs had three goals and 15 shots before Kelowna hit goalie Mac Engel and went on to register a convincing 5-1 win before 5,769 fans at the Arena.

The Kelowna Rockets rang a shot off the goal post a minute into their game against the Spokane Chiefs Saturday night, but that was the only noise they made.

Sometimes saying nothing carries more weight than a speech. That was certainly the case from the Spokane locker room after the Chiefs’ Western Hockey League home opener on Saturday.