I dont Check-Raise enough?

I have more of a general question, but I figured I would post a hand to go along with it.

Some people have commented on it looking at certain hands Ive played, but it seems that I dont check-raise a whole lot. (especially in short handed where Im scared of getting a hand checked thru) If you are playing 1/2 or 2/4 and your opponents have a tendency to want to call you if you bet, is this really that big of a deal?

So most of the time when I end up in early position and I only have two more opponents I usually always bet unless they are the sort that bets out anything.

Here's a hand that might show this, is there anyway to check raise this hand? At the time I had no stats on my opponents and no reads, but my initial feeling was that they seemed to be inclined to call you down, probally wouldnt fold, but were so passive that they wouldnt take much initiative either unless they hit something big:

Party Poker 1/2 Hold'em (6 max, 5 handed) FTR converter on zerodivide.cx

Preflop: Hero is SB with K[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], 9[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img].
UTG calls, MP calls, Button calls, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises</font>, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, UTG calls, MP calls, Button calls.

Flop: (9 SB) K[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], 2[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], T[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(4 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">Hero bets</font>, <font color="#CC3333">UTG raises</font>, MP folds, Button calls, <font color="#CC3333">Hero 3-bets</font>, UTG calls, Button calls.

Turn: (9 BB) 7[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(3 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">Hero bets</font>, UTG folds, Button folds.