dailydaily newsnews 8 The Goodland Daily News / Monday, March 18, 2002 sports Injured Hinrich Getting ready Rockies play three SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — The in his previous three starts. Colorado Rockies played three games The Rockies lost to Arizona 2-1 in this weekend, losing twice to Arizona the game on Saturday. and beating the Giants. Larry Walker a home and helps Kansas win Shortstop Tim Olson committed Gary Bennett and Juan Uribe each had By Doug Tucker ing a roar from several thousand Kan- four of Arizona’s 10 errors but had an three hits as the Rockies defeated the RBI single in the ninth to lift the Dia- San Francisco Giants 10-8 Sunday. AP Sports Writer sas fans who feared he might be mondbacks to a 10-9 victory over the Reggie Sanders had two hits and ST. LOUIS — Even with a bad through for the year. ankle, Kirk Hinrich was a force for top- Less than three minutes later, after Rockies in a split-squad game on Sun- drove in three runs for the Giants, who day. had their four-game winning streak seeded Kansas. Stanford’s Curtis Borchardt shot an air Colorado starter Mike Hampton and snapped. Damon Minor hit his fifth Hinrich, playing with a brace on the ball, Hinrich pulled up and hit a jumper left ankle he sprained two days earlier, to make it 23-9. Arizona’s Randy Johnson both home run, and David Bell also struggled. Each gave up five runs and homered. scored 15 points as the Jayhawks After Josh Childress hit for Stanford, eight hits over four innings. But only Mike James pitched the fourth to routed Stanford 86-63 in a second- Hinrich drilled a 3-pointer at the 10:06 round Midwest Regional game Satur- mark. With 7:56 left in the half, he hit two of runs against Johnson were pick up the win. Jason Christensen, earned. making his first appearance since day night. another long 3 to put the Jayhawks up Olson made two of his errors in the March 1, took the loss. Kansas (31-3) used a 15-0 run to 31-15. open the game against the eighth- The 6-foot-3 Hinrich, the Jayhawks’ fifth, including a bad throw that al- Chris Holt made his first start of the lowed Ryan Owens and Ben Petrick to spring after four relief appearances. He seeded Cardinal, and then closed the best defender also spent much of the score and gave Colorado an 8-6 lead. went three innings, allowing five runs, first half on a 10-0 run, capped by game guarding Casey Jacobsen, Hinrich’s jumper, to head into the Stanford’s 6-6 swingman who had 24 Third baseman Chris Donnels made six hits and two walks. two errors, and second baseman Jun- Giants starter Joe Nathan allowed locker room with a 48-26 halftime points. ior Spivey, catcher Chad Moeller, third three runs and seven hits in four innings lead. Gooden, the Jayhawks’ All-America After losing to Oklahoma in the Big junior forward, had just four points in baseman Robbie Hammock and right with two walks and a . fielder Doug Devore also committed Uribe, who has a team-high 20 hits, 12 tournament final last Sunday and the first half but finished with a total of errors. was 3-for-5, with a single, double and struggling to beat 16th-seeded Holy 15. Cross on Thursday, the Jayhawks ap- Three minutes into the second half, It was Hampton’s third straight triple. rough outing. He gave up two homers, The Rockies scored three runs in the peared to regain the rhythm and flow Gooden stole the ball at midcourt and walked five and struck out three. In his fifth to take the lead for good. Benny of the three-guard offense that made drove for a big dunk to give Kansas a them the nation’s highest-scoring team 58-32 lead. With 13:40 left, Boschee past 9 1-3 innings, Hampton has al- Agbayani walked and scored when lowed 14 runs and walked 13 batters. Mike Bell tripled. Bennett and John with more than 91 points a game. stole a pass and threw the ball to Johnson had limited opponents to Barnes each followed with RBI Their lead over Stanford (20-10), Hinrich s