Hanford

Loyola's Jamie Hanford has a huge appetite, but nothing quite measures up to the bite he took out of the Johns Hopkins offense two weeks ago.The freshman defenseman from Darien, Conn., held Hopkins attackman Terry Riordan to one goal in a 12-11 Hopkins victory. That's Riordan, as in All-American. Riordan, as in the Blue-Jays' all-time leading goal scorer with 44 this season."The coaches thought I did a good job the first time against him, and I'm anxious to play him a second," said Hanford.

After two scoreless, four-minute overtime periods, John Blatchley's goal 36 seconds into sudden death lifted the club all-stars to an 11-10 win over Team USA.The game was the first of 11 for Team USA before the World Games, July 20-30 in Manchester, England. The club all-stars are the Team USA alternates, plus Gary Gait of Canada, who scored two goals last night.Gait and his twin brother, Paul, regarded as the world's best offensive players, will play for Canada against Team USA in the World Games.

CAROLINE GROSS, 53, New Hampshire's House majority leader, died Sunday of cancer in Concord. The Republican joined the legislature in 1983 and was serving her sixth term. She was named 1993 Legislator of the Year by the National Republican Legislators Association. She was a delegate to the New Hampshire Republican Convention from 1968 to 1978 and worked as administrative assistant to former Gov. Walter Peterson in 1969 and 1970.Franklin T. Matthias, 85, who directed construction of the federal government's Hanford nuclear weapons research and production reservation during World War II, died of cancer Friday in Walnut Creek, Calif.

Former Del. John S. Arnick's chances of being confirmed as a judge suffered two more setbacks yesterday as a state official supported allegations that Mr. Arnick made racist and lewd remarks at a 1992 dinner meeting and another woman said she would testify that he made unwanted sexual advances.Nancy J. Nowak, a former aide to Gov. William Donald Schaefer (( who now heads the Maryland Division of Parole and Probation, said she was willing to appear before a Senate committee to confirm a lobbyist's account of Mr. Arnick's remarks at the dinner in Annapolis.

A storage tank at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington state has leaked more than a million gallons of cooling water contaminated by radioactive waste, an amount far surpassing any other admitted leak of potentially deadly materials at the site.State officials expressed outrage at learning only last week of the enormous leak despite repeated, extensive discussions with Hanford officials about 149 single-shell tanks considered to be the site's most serious environmental problem.Public documents of the federal Department of Energy and Westinghouse Hanford Co., the main contractor at the arid, sagebrush-covered site near Richland, Wash.