Lynx in WNBA Finals

Maya Moore had a playoff career-high 40 points, including the winning free throw with two seconds left to give visiting Minnesota a 72-71 victory over the Phoenix Mercury. The win sent the Lynx to the WNBA Finals for the fourth time in five years with a two-game sweep in the Western Conference finals.

At Indianapolis, the Indiana Fever beat the New York Liberty, 70-64, to force a deciding third game in the Eastern Conference finals.

Sparks forward Nneka Ogwumike was named to the WNBA all-defensive team. Other first-team selections were Indiana’s Tamika Catchings, Phoenix center Brittney Griner, Indiana’s Briann January and Atlanta’s Angel McCoughtry.

In tennis, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga beat fellow Frenchman Gilles Simon, 7-6 (5), 1-6, 6-2, to win the Open de Moselle tournament at Metz, France. . . . Milos Raonic of Canada defeated Joao Sousa of Portugal, 6-3, 3-6, 6-3, in the final of the St. Petersburg Open in Russia. . . . Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland won the Pan-Pacific Open, beating Belinda Bencic of Switzerland, 6-2, 6-2, in Tokyo.

Dallas-based SCA Promotions reached a settlement in a legal dispute with former cyclist Lance Armstrong. Details weren’t revealed. SCA sought repayment of more than $10 million in bonuses paid to Armstrong during a career later exposed to have been fueled by performance-enhancing drugs.

Alert Bay won the $200,000 City of Hope Mile by a length at Santa Anita.

The United States was denied again in its bid for its first high-profile rugby victory. The U.S. team outplayed Scotland for 40 minutes, only for the Scots to wipe out a 13-6 halftime deficit and surge to a 39-16 win at the World Cup in Leeds, England.

Eliud Kipchoge of Kenya won the Berlin Marathon, running a personal best of 2 hours 4 minutes but falling short of the world record of 2:02:57 set by countryman Dennis Kimetto at Berlin last year.

Peter Sagan of Slovakia won the elite men’s race at the road cycling world championships in Richmond, Va..