ARLINGTON, Texas — Canada took one other step in direction of clinching its first Olympics spot since 1996 with a sweep of Germany on Thursday in Volleyball Nations League.
Earlier at UT Arlington, Poland swept Korea after which Türkiye beat Serbia in 4 units.
In Macao, China, Japan swept France and Brazil beat the Netherlands in 4.
On the finish of the day, the ladies’s standings noticed Poland and Brazil on prime at 6-0 and Italy a sport again at 5-1.
The USA ladies are again in motion after two days off.
The People (3-2) play the late match right here, at 8 p.m. Central, in opposition to last-place Bulgaria (1-4). At 1 p.m. Poland performs Germany (1-5) after which Canada (4-2) faces Serbia (1-5). The USA ladies got here house from Rio de Janiero 2-2 after a primary spherical during which they beat Thailand and misplaced to China and Brazil, all in 4 units, earlier than sweeping the Dominican Republic. They opened the second spherical right here on Tuesday with a four-set win over Canada during which Kathryn Plummer had 14 kills, Jordan Thompson 13 and Jordan Larson 12.
Friday’s matches in Macao are already accomplished with the Netherlands (3-4) beating the Dominican Republic (2-5) in 4 units and Japan (5-2) beating China (4-2) in 4. Nova Marring had 18 kills, a block and two aces for the Netherlands, after which Sarina Nashida Koga went off for Japan with 25 kills and Arisa Inoue had 18.
A really environment friendly Canadian crew overpowered Germany 25-20, 25-15, 25-22 as Alexa Grey of Calgary, who performed at BYU, had 17 kills with no errors in 30 assaults to hit .566 with two aces. She additionally had a team-high 11 digs.
Kiera Van Ryk had 10 kills, three aces and 5 blocks, two solo, to go along with 9 digs. Andrea Mitrovic, who performed at Arizona State, had eight kills, a solo block and eight digs. Jazmine Ruth White, who performed at Michigan State, had 5 kills in 11 errorless swings and 5 blocks, two solo. Setter Brie O’Reilly had three kills, a block and her crew hit .430.
Canada is sixth within the 16-team standings. After taking part in Serbia, the crew has Saturday off earlier than ending the second spherical in opposition to Korea.
“We took care of enterprise in the present day,” Canada coach Shannon Winzer mentioned. “Our sport plan was to take out the German center assault and it begins with service strain after which finishes with our executing our blocking assignments.
“The crew did a terrific job of following the sport plan and everybody did their jobs in the present day.”
Lena Stigrot had 11 kills for Germany.
In Poland’s 25-20, 25-20, 25-10 blasting of Korea, Monika Fedusio had 16 kills with one error in 37 assaults and an ace to go along with six block assists. Malwina Smarzek had 12 kills, an ace and a solo block.
