{"id":797,"date":"2023-07-06T05:12:38","date_gmt":"2023-07-06T12:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/?p=797"},"modified":"2023-07-06T05:12:39","modified_gmt":"2023-07-06T12:12:39","slug":"sports-headlines-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/?p=797","title":{"rendered":"Sports Headlines"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Rockies were in Houston for a day game against the Astros Wednesday.&nbsp; After Houston opened up a 5-nothing lead, the Rocks seemed to try to make it interesting.&nbsp; Down 5-2 in the 6<sup>th<\/sup>, CJ Cron (KROHN) smashed a homer into the left field seats.&nbsp; Houston native Randall Grichuk (GRITCH-uhk) hit another to the same spot in the 7<sup>th<\/sup>, and got a standing ovation from his mom, dad, and sister who were sitting right there.&nbsp; But none of it was enough for Colorado\u2026&nbsp; the Astros win, 6 to 4.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Team USA is taking on the world in the women\u2019s Americup basketball tournament being played in Mexico City, and the squad\u2019s led by Coloradoan Laura Betts.&nbsp; She\u2019s said by many experts to be one of the state\u2019s best home-grown hoops talents ever.&nbsp; She was Gatorade Player of the Year in high school, and the nation\u2019s top recruit coming out of high school, at 6 feet 7.&nbsp; Wednesday, she led all scorers with 17 points and 14 rebounds, as the Americans blasted Cuba, 106 to 44.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rockies were in Houston for a day game against the Astros Wednesday.&nbsp; After Houston opened up a 5-nothing lead, the Rocks seemed to try to make it interesting.&nbsp; Down 5-2 in the 6th, CJ Cron (KROHN) smashed a homer into the left field seats.&nbsp; Houston native Randall Grichuk (GRITCH-uhk) hit another to the same [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rnrsports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":798,"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797\/revisions\/798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}