ST. LOUIS (AP) — Lance Lynn returned to his All-Star form for the Cardinals. The St. Louis rookie right-hander broke out of a three-start slump with six shutout innings, and Matt Holliday and Carlos Beltran drove in a pair of runs apiece to lead the Cardinals to a 6-2 win over the Colorado Rockies on Thursday night. Lynn (11-4) bounced back with a strong effort following a trio of disastrous outings. He surrendered four hits and struck out seven in winning for the first time since June 13. Lynn, voted to the All-Star team by his fellow players, was 0-2 with a 9.98 ERA in his three previous starts. His performance helped St. Louis win for the fourth time in five games, and 11 of 14 against Colorado. The Rockies have lost four of five. Colorado has scored 13 runs in its last six games. The hot-hitting Holliday paced the attack with a run-scoring groundout in the first and a bases-loaded single in the fifth off Colorado starter Christian Friedrich (4-6), who gave up six earned runs in 4 1-3 innings. Holliday, who has an RBI in each of his last six games, is 34 for 68 with four homers and 21 RBIs in his last 18 games. Jake Westbrook (7-6, 3.91) will face Florida Marlins right-hander Ricky Nolasco (7-6, 4.62) in the opener of a three-game series this evening (Friday) in St Louis.

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — George Wine, a longtime sports information director at Iowa and co-author of an autobiography of Hawkeyes coach Hayden Fry, died Thursday following a heart attack. He was 81. The university said Wine died at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, two days after undergoing hip replacement surgery. Wine served as the Hawkeyes’ SID from 1968-1993. He later co-wrote “The High Porch Picnic” with Fry and a book on Iowa’s sports history titled “Black & Gold Memories: The Hawkeyes of the 20th Century.” A former president of CoSIDA, he was inducted into the Kinnick Stadium Media Wall of Fame in 2006.

Wine was born in Omaha, Neb., and served in the Air Force from 1951 to 1954.He graduated from Iowa two years later and was the sports information director at what is now Northern Iowa and Memphis before returning to his alma mater and home state. Survivors include his wife, Dr. Barrie Anderson, and son, Steve Wine, a sports writer for The Associated Press based in Miami.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Adam Wainwright pitched six strong innings and Matt Holliday had three hits to lead the St. Louis Cardinals to a 4-1 win over the Colorado Rockies on Wednesday night. Wainwright (7-8) gave up one run, struck out seven and allowed eight hits to help the Cardinals win for the third time in four games. He fanned seven of the first 13 hitters and threw a first-pitch strike to nine of the first 10 batters. Wainwright was coming off one of his worst performances of the season. He gave up seven earned runs in five innings of a 14-5 loss to Pittsburgh on Friday. Holliday, who went 3-for-4, is 33-for-64 (.516) with four homers and 19 RBI in his last 16 games.

Class 2-A First Round :

• Missouri Valley 15, Logan-Magnolia 5 (6 innings)
• Underwood 11, St. Albert 1 (6 innings)
• Griswold 5, Audubon 4 (9 innings)
• Panorama 11, West Central Valley 5

Thursday 2nd Round Matchups (All 7pm starts)

• Griswold @ IKM-Manning
• Panorama @ Van Meter
• Tri-Center @ Missouri Valley
• Underwood @ Treynor
• Lawton-Bronson @ Maple Valley Anthon Oto

Class 3-A First Round :

• Atlantic 15, Clarinda 5
• Red Oak 3, Shenendoah 0
• Ballard (Huxley) 12, Kuemper Catholic 0 (3 innings)

Friday 2nd Round Matchups (All 7pm starts)

• Red Oak @ Atlantic
• OA-BCIG @ MOC-Floyd Valley
• Greene County @ Ballard (Huxley)