AREA ROUNDUP: Chiefs select Austrian in draft

Thu., June 28, 2007

The Spokesman-Review

The Spokane Chiefs selected Austrian defenseman Stefan Ulmer with the 34th overall pick in Wednesday’s Canadian Hockey League Import Draft.

Ulmer, 17, played 32 games last season for the GCK Lions, an Elite Junior A team in Switzerland. The 5-foot-10, 165-pounder scored two goals and 12 points and had five assists in eight playoff games. He also played for Team Austria’s Under-18 national team in the team’s past two world championship appearances.

Ulmer is expected to join center Ondrej Roman from the Czech Republic as one of two import players on the Chiefs rosters, according to a team press release, the maximum allowed on CHL teams. Roman was selected in the 2006 draft and played last season for the Chiefs.

Baseball

Two errors and a wild pitch helped Moses Lake put together a three-run sixth inning that put the Pirates ahead to stay in a 5-3 victory over the Spokane RiverHawks in a West Coast Collegiate Baseball League game at Gonzaga University’s Patterson Baseball Complex.

Trailing 4-0 in the bottom of the sixth, the RiverHawks (4-8) scored two runs, one on Jackson Evans’ single. Evans went 2 for 4.

Moses Lake improved to 9-3. The RiverHawks are host to the Corvallis Knights tonight at 7.

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