HIGH SCHOOLS

Falmouth forward Owen Drummey, Lewiston goalie Keegan McLaughlin and Edward Little defenseman Will Cassidy have been named finalists for the 2021 Travis Roy Award.

The winner of the award, given to the top senior boys’ hockey player in Class A, will be announced on April 18.

COLLEGES

BASEBALL: Cam Seymour hit three home runs for eight RBI as Southern Maine won a doubleheader opener, 13-8, before losing 6-5 to UMass Dartmouth in an 11-inning second game in Dartmouth, Massachusetts.

Seymour had four hits in Game 1, including a two-run homer in the fourth inning, a grand slam in the sixth and a two-run homer in the ninth. Andrew Olszak and Andrew Hillier each had two hits and scored three runs, and Sam Troiano also homered and had two hits.

Seymour got two more hits in the second game, including a two-run single, and the Huskies tie it at 5 on a two-run throwing error in the eighth. UMD’s Erick Ramirez ended it with a one-out single in the 11th.

MEN’S HOCKEY: Notre Dame withdrew from the NCAA Tournament because of positive COVID-19 tests, giving top-seeded Boston College a spot in the Albany Regional final.

The Fighting Irish and Eagles were scheduled to play Saturday afternoon in the first round. Instead, Boston College will play Sunday against Boston University or St. Cloud State for a berth in the Frozen Four.

MEN’S BASKETBALL: Oklahoma Coach Lon Kruger announced his retirement, culminating a 35-year career that included taking five different schools to the NCAA Tournament – with two of them reaching the Final Four – and more than 650 career wins.

Kruger, 68, is the only coach to lead five different programs to NCAA Tournament wins – Oklahoma, Kansas State, Florida, Illinois and UNLV.

FOOTBALL

NFL: The Arizona Cardinals added cornerback Malcolm Butler on a one-year deal and traded center Mason Cole to the Minnesota Vikings for a sixth-round draft pick.

Butler, a two-time Pro Bowl selection, started all 16 games for the Tennessee Titans last season and had four interceptions and a career-high 100 tackles. Terms of his deal were not disclosed by the Cardinals.

• Running back Matt Breida agreed to a one-year contract with the Buffalo Bills.

Breida played last season for the Miami Dolphins after three seasons with the San Francisco 49ers.

SOCCER

U.S. MEN: Sergiño Dest scored his first international goal with a spectacular 25-yard shot, Sebastian Lletget added a pair of second-half goals and the United States beat Jamaica 4-1 in an exhibition in Austria.

Brenden Aaronson scored for the U.S. in the 53rd minute. Jamal Lowe got Jamaica’s goal in the 70th minute on a counterattack.

The 22nd-ranked Americans, preparing for the start of World Cup qualifying in September, have seven wins and a draw in their last eight matches, and have outscored opponents 23-3 in winning four straight friendlies.

WORLD CUP QUALIFYING: Germany took a step toward qualifying for the 2022 World Cup with a 3-0 win over Iceland, with the team also making a statement about human rights concerns.

Before the game, Germany’s players lined up in T-shirts bearing the slogan “HUMAN RIGHTS.” It came a day after a similar protest by Norway in reference to labor rights abuses in Qatar, the host nation for next year’s tournament.

• Spain was held to a 1-1 draw by Greece in its opening qualifier in Madrid.

In the other Group B match, Sweden defeated Georgia, 1-0, as Zlatan Ibrahimovic set up the winning goal on his return to international soccer after almost five years.

• Italy, which failed to qualify for the 2018 World Cup, started its campaign with a comfortable 2-0 win at home against Northern Ireland.

Switzerland won 3-1 at Bulgaria in the other Group C match.

• England easily won its opener, 5-0 at home against San Marino – the world’s lowest-ranked national team.

Also in Group I, Poland came from behind to draw 3-3 at Hungary.

TENNIS

MIAMI OPEN: Top-ranked Ash Barty rallied from a big third-set deficit and overcame a match point to win her opening match against qualifier Kristina Kucova, 6-3, 4-6, 7-5.

WAWRINKA SURGERY: Three-time Grand Slam winner Stan Wawrinka had surgery for an injury to his left foot and said that he would be out “for a few weeks,” with the French Open starting May 23. He won at Roland Garros in 2015.

“After having some problems in my left foot for a while, I have decided to do a small procedure on it,” Wawrinka wrote on his social media accounts. The world No. 21, who turns 36 on Sunday, lost first-round matches at both tournaments he played this month, at Rotterdam and Doha.

Wawrinka lost in the second round at the Australian Open in January.

He could also target his local clay court tournament in Switzerland in the week before the French Open. Wawrinka won the Geneva Open in 2016 and 2017, which was his last title on the ATP circuit.

FIGURE SKATING

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS: Japan’s Yuzuru Hanyu, looking every bit the champion of the sport, won the short program in Stockholm, Sweden, distancing himself from Nathan Chen when the American fell on his opening quadruple lutz while Hanyu was sheer perfection.

Hanyu has been the sport’s biggest attraction for two Olympic cycles, each of which ended with him wearing a gold medal. He showed why in a short program packed with difficulty, style, artistry and a ton of energy.

Chen, the two-time defending world champion who hasn’t lost a competition since the 2018 Olympics, struggled early in his program, similar to what happened at the Pyeongchang Olympics. He’s more than eight points behind Hanyu’s 106.98 points. And Hanyu’s countryman, 17-year-old sensation Yuma Kagiyama, is between the two favorites in second place.

OLYMPICS

TORCH RELAY: The torch relay for the postponed Tokyo Olympics began its 121-day journey across Japan on Thursday and is headed toward the opening ceremony in Tokyo on July 23.

The relay began in northeastern Fukushima prefecture, the area that was devastated by the 2011 earthquake, tsunami and the meltdown of three nuclear reactors. About 18,000 died in the tragedy,

The first runner with the torch was Azusa Iwashimizu, a key player in the Japan team that won the Women’s World Cup in 2011.

Wearing a white track suit, she carried the torch out of the J-Village indoor soccer training center and was surrounded by 14 other members of that 2011 World Cup squad and coach Norio Sasaki at the rear. They were also decked out in white track suits.

The ceremony was closed to the public because of the fear of spreading COVID-19 but was streamed live.