Hoffman birdied half of the holes on the Golf Club of Houston course Thursday and had just a single bogey to shoot an eight-under-par 64 and take the first-round lead at the Houston Open
Michigan’s freshman forward Kyle Connor, Boston College’s junior goalie Thatcher Demko and Harvard’s senior forward Jimmy Vesey are this season’s finalists for the Hobey Baker Memorial Award, given to college hockey’s top player.
Svetlana Kuznetsova erased 12 of the 14 break points she faced and beat Timea Bacsinszky, 7-5, 6-3, on Thursday in the semifinals of the Miami Open in Key Biscayne, Fla.