GOLF
As a player, Tiger Woods wasn’t all that happy with his game Wednesday in the Hero World Challenge. As the Presidents Cup captain, he had reason to be pleased.
U.S. Open champion Gary Woodland and Patrick Reed, who will be part of the U.S. team next week in Australia, each managed a tough wind in the Bahamas to post a 6-under 66 and share the lead after the opening round of a tournament that felt more like a Presidents Cup tune-up.
Woods used two of his four captain’s picks on Woodland and Reed.
He used another on himself, and showed plenty of rust in his first tournament since he won the Zozo Championship in Japan the last week of October. He got to 3 under by chipping in for eagle on the par-5 15th, but then chopped his way to a bogey-double bogey finish for a 72.
HIGH SCHOOLS
GIRLS’ HOCKEY: Abby Agrodnia scored four goals, and Cape Elizabeth/Waynflete/South Portland (4-0) used a 75-1 shot advantage to defeat Falmouth 7-0 at Troubh Ice Arena.
Bella Schifano had a goal and an assist. Delaney Whitten and Nicoletta Coupe also scored.
Hannah Dubinsky of Falmouth (0-3) made 68 saves.
• Madi Pelletier and West Duffy scored two goals apiece to lead St. Dom’s/Winthrop/Gray-New Gloucester (1-1) to a 7-0 victory over Yarmouth/Freeport (1-3) at Norway Savings Bank Arena.
• Camilla Lattanzi scored five goals as Greely (1-2) defeated Brunswick (0-4) at Family Ice Center, 7-0.
SOCCER
PREMIER LEAGUE: Liverpool Manager Jurgen Klopp claimed his 100th Premier League win in style as his team beat Everton 5-2 in the Merseyside derby.
All but one of the goals were scored in a manic first half in the highest-scoring game between the crosstown rivals since 1991. Liverpool stayed eight points ahead of Leicester at the top of the league, while Everton dropped into the relegation zone.
• Manchester United handed former manager Jose Mourinho his first loss in four games in charge of visiting Tottenham, as Marcus Rashford scored twice in a 2-1 win.
BOXING
HALL OF FAME: Middleweight champion Bernard Hopkins, four-division champion Juan Manuel Marquez of Mexico, three-division champ Shane Mosley and women’s star Christy Martin were elected to the International Boxing Hall of Fame.
This was the first year that women were on the ballot, and Barbara Buttrick of England and Lucia Rijker of the Netherlands joined Martin in making history as the first female boxers elected.
HOCKEY
NHL: Valeri Nichushkin scored a tiebreaking short-handed goal in the third period, lifting Colorado to a 3-1 win at Toronto.
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