The USA girls, 2-0 within the third spherical of Volleyball Nations League, have Friday off earlier than going through Italy on Saturday.
The Individuals, an OIympic bid lengthy in hand, bought an enormous efficiency from Jordan Thompson and a lift from the continued return of Annie Drews and Kelsey Cook dinner.
Canada, nevertheless, had a wildly completely different couple of days. First the Canadians, nonetheless hoping for an Olympic spot, pulled off a reverse sweep over Japan on Wednesday. However Thursday they bought swept by their closest rivals for that bid to Paris, the Netherlands, and are very a lot in limbo.
The USA improved to 6-4 total in VNL and is in sixth place after its 25–21, 26–20, 25–22 over the Netherlands (6-5) Fukuoka, Japan.
Drews led with 10 kills, a block and two aces. Dana Rettke had 10 kills, two blocks and an ace. Cook dinner added 11 kills and two aces and Chiaka Ogbogu had 9 kills and three blocks. The USA had 5 aces with eight serving errors and hit .320.
The Netherlands, which bought 10 kills and two blocks from Nova Marring, had been coming of an enormous 25-24, 25-16, 25-23 sweep of Canada that left Canada 6-5 and in ninth place. To learn extra, click on right here for the recap on Volleyball World.
The highest seven groups plus host Thailand advance to the VNL finals in Bangkok.
