Loui Eriksson was named a finalist for the Lady Byng Trophy, awarded each year to the NHL player who exhibits high sportsmanship and gentlemanly conduct along with a high level of play. The Kings’ Anze Kopitar and Panthers’ Aleksander Barkov are the other finalists. Eriksson had 30 goals and 33 assists while playing in 82 games for the Bruins. Eriksson­ killed penalties and played the net-front role on the No. 1 power-play unit. He was the only Bruin to play in every game in 2015-16. Eriksson played on three lines and both wings. He even played one game at center. Eriksson recorded 12 penalty minutes. Eriksson­ will join Patrice Bergeron (Selke Trophy finalist) in Las Vegas for the NHL awards show on June 22. Rick Middleton was the last Bruin to win the Lady Byng in 1981-82. The 30-year-old Eriksson will become an unrestricted free agent for the first time in his career July 1. He is likely to test the market.

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Soccer

Leicester City set to clinch

Leicester City can clinch its first English Premier League title as early as Sunday with a victory over former powerhouse Manchester United. At the beginning of the season, the Foxes were given 5,000-to-1 odds of finishing in the top spot. Now many of Leicester’s fans are poised to cash in. Joe Crilly, spokesman for the William Hill betting chain, said the company will no longer casually offer such high odds in the face of an expected 10 million pounds ($14.6 million) industry loss that will be suffered if, as expected, the Foxes finish in first . . . Steven Mendoza broke a tie in the 73d minute and host New York City FC beat Vancouver, 3-2, to snap a seven-game winless streak in MLS. David Villa had two first-half goals for New York City . . . Patrick Nyarko scored for D.C. United in the 64th minute and the visitors tied the Chicago Fire, 1-1, in rainy conditions in Bridgeview, Ill. . . . Rookie Jordan Morris scored off a rebound in the 88th minute to give the Sounders a 1-0 victory over the Columbus Crew in Seattle . . . Simon Dawkins scored in the 83d minute to give the San Jose Earthquakes a 1-1 tie with the Philadelphia Union in Chester, Pa. . . . Bobby Burling scored for Colorado in the 73d minute and the Rapids tied the host Montreal Impact, 2-2 . . . Yura Movsisyan scored the go-ahead goal in the 70th minute and Real Salt Lake beat the Houston Dynamo, 2-1, in Sandy, Utah.

Colleges

Harvard takes Smith Cup

Harvard’s men’s heavyweight crew team, ranked fifth, outlasted ninth-ranked Northeastern on the Charles River to win the Crimson’s 19th straight Smith Cup. Boston University men’s varsity eight rowing team swept all three races against Wisconsin to capture the Terriers’ fifth straight Jablonic Cup . . . In women’s lacrosse, Harvard claimed the final spot in the Ivy League tournament with a 13-4 win over Yale in New Haven, Conn. . . . Former Kentucky basketball guard Ed Davender, the only Wildcat with at least 1,500 points and 400 assists, died Thursday of a heart attack, the school announced. He was 49. Davender scored 1,637 points and had 436 assists from 1984-88.

Tennis

Thiem reaches BMW final

Dominic Thiem surpassed Novak Djokovic for most wins (29 single matches) on tour this year as he reached the BMW Open final in Munich by defeating Alexander Zverev, 4-6, 6-2, 6-3. In the final he will play Philipp Kohlschreiber, who easily defeated Fabio Fognini, 6-1, 6-4 . . . Grigor Dimitrov will face Diego Schwartzman in the final of the Istanbul Open. In the semifinals, Dimitrov beat third-seeded Ivo Karlovic, 7-6 (7-0), 7-6 (7-2). Schwartzman came back from a set down to upset Federico Delbonis, 6-7 (5-7), 6-3, 6-2 . . . Lucie Safarova came from a set down to win the Prague Open in the Czech Republic, overcoming Sam Stosur, 3-6, 6-1, 6-4 . . .Timea Bacsinszky beat qualifier Marina Erakovic, 6-2, 6-1, to win the Grand Prix SAR in Rabat, Morocco.

Miscellany

Cannons hold off Blaze

Six points from Max Seibald and three goals by Will Manny lifted the Boston Cannons to a 13-12 Major League Lacrosse win over the Atlanta Blaze at Harvard Stadium . . . Katie McLaughlin won the 200-meter freestyle at the Fran Crippen Memorial Swim Meet of Champions in Mission Viejo, Calif., a tune-up meet for the US Olympic trials in June. McLaughlin, a member of the US national team, won in 1 minute, 59.74 seconds, the only swimmer to go under two minutes . . . In boxing, Andre Berto (31-4, 24 KOs) stopped Victor Ortiz (31-6-2) with two knockdowns in the fourth round in Carson, Calif., avenging his loss in the welterweight stars’ first bout five years ago. . . Americans Sanya Richards-Ross, Natasha Hastings, Deedee Trotter, and Phyllis Francis won the 1,600-meter relay over Jamaica at the Penn Relays in Philadelphia. It was the fifth win by the American team in the six races in the US-vs.-World event. The only loss for the Americans came in the men’s 400 relay as the US team bobbled its victory away on a bad baton handoff for the final leg between Tyson Gay and Isiah Young that led to a disqualification.

. . . Omar McLeod won the 110-meter hurdles at the Drake Relays in Des Moines, Iowa, in a world-leading 13.08 seconds. Reigning Olympic champion Aries Merritt, who competed in his first Olympic-style race since receiving a kidney transplant from his sister in September, was fifth. Kendra Harrison held off the last two Drake Relays winners, Jasmin Stowers and Kristi Castlin, to win the 100 hurdles in 12.56.