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News Article TriCity Americans TEAM Roster Player Stats (WHL site) League Standings (WHL site) Prospects How the Ams Were Built Bantam Draft Alumni Update Alumni Registry Front Office Contact Us TICKETS Ticket Information Season Tickets Value Packs Civic Packs Group Tickets Birthday Pack Special Promotions Seating Chart Visitor Information SCHEDULE & RESULTS STORE The Team Store Auctions NEWS EDUCATION FANZONE Fanzone Home Kids Club Booster Club EClub Scoreboard Greetings Internet Radio Listen Online! Hockey 101 Player Photos COMMUNITY Upcoming Appearances Past Appearances Request an Appearance Charity Donation Requests Pet of the Week SPONSORS HOME NEXT GAMEWednesdayMarch 10 2010 0705 PM TriCity Americansvs Seattle Thunderbirds Toyota Center March 2010 SMTWTFS 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Home GamesAway GamesLAST GAMEMarch 07 2010 Away 123FAmericans1023at Seattle 2204Game Details TriCity Americans NewsMacek Brings Out Bears Leads TriCity Past Portland 52December 13 2009Dan Mulhausen TriCity Americans Photo courtesy of John AllenKENNEWICK WA It may not have happened as quickly as it did last year but Brooks Macek made sure the fans got to toss their teddy bears on Saturday nightMacek scored twice and Drew Owsley stopped 33 shots to guide the TriCity Americans (23900 46 pts) past the visiting Portland Winterhawks (201301 41 pts) 52 in front of 4409 generous fans at Toyota Center After Maceks first goal Americans fans donated 2683 teddy bears to various MidColumbia charities With the win TriCity has won four of their last five games and improves to 40 versus the Hawks this season Meanwhile Portland who came in a winner in four of their last five games has now lost in their last six visits to KennewickIn last seasons Teddy Bear Toss Mitch Fadden scored just 58 seconds into the contest to bring out the bears This year both Johnny Lazo and Brendan Shinnimin just missed their chances to activate the launch a mere 15 seconds into Saturday nights contest But after dominating the shot advantage to start Macek finally connected to start the onslaught With 12 minutes gone in the first period and on the power play Shinnimin found Macek waiting backdoor who the buried the passLess than two minutes later Macek connected again on the power play this time following up a rebound from Adam Hughesman to make it a 20 TriCity lead The goal marked the first multigoal game of Maceks young WHL career who was named the SonShine Collision Services offensive player of the month for November before the gameBut with less than two minutes remaining in the period Portland used a power play goal of their own to cut the deficit in half Ty Rattie notched his first of two on the night when he snapped a shot between the pads of OwsleyThe turning point...