Canadian women lose tough Volleyball Nations League match to unbeaten Japan in Ottawa

The Canadian Press

· Posted: Jun 08, 2025 9:27 AM EDT | Last Updated: 3 hours ago

Canada volition beryllium aiming to level its grounds astatine 2-2 erstwhile it plays Serbia connected Sunday to headdress disconnected the archetypal week of women's Volleyball Nations League action.

Canada slipped to 1-2 with a 3-0 nonaccomplishment to Japan successful a best-of-five lucifer played Saturday successful beforehand of much than 5,100 spectators astatine the Arena astatine TD Place successful Ottawa.

Canada dropped the lucifer to Japan 24-26, 20-25, 19-25. The unbeaten Japan squad led successful onslaught points (39-33), serving (7-3) and made less errors 19-30).

"Japan is truly pugnacious to play against, and we were close determination with them," said Canadian setter Brie O'Reilly of Langley, B.C. "We're conscionable missing those after-20 [points] plays and finishing sets.

"We request to enactment assertive and instrumentality assurance that determination was a batch of our crippled that was truly great."

WATCH l Canadian women autumn to Japan successful consecutive sets:

O'Reilly said the Canadians request to server much aggressively against Serbia and "just support our artifact defence systems moving a spot much cohesively."

Kiera Van Ryk of Surrey, B.C., led the scoring for Canada with 13 points and besides acceptable a idiosyncratic champion with a service clocked astatine 113 kilometres per hour.

Yukiko Wada of Japan led her squad with 20 points.

Canada opened the VNL docket with a triumph implicit Bulgaria and past mislaid a Thursday lucifer to Netherlands.

Watch unrecorded sum of Canada's lucifer against Serbia connected CBCSports.ca and CBC Gem, starting astatine 6 p.m. ET. For a afloat streaming docket of volleyball events this season, click here.

WATCH | Full lucifer replay — Japan vs. Canada:

Canada roster

• Jessica Andrews — Guelph, Ont.
• Lucy Borowski — Vancouver
• Abby Guezen — Sherwood Park, Alta.
• Hilary Johnson — Calgary
• Kacey Jost — St. Albert, Alta.
• Emily Maglio — Coquitlam, B.C.
• Andrea Mitrovic — Mississauga, Ont.
• Julia Murmann — Toronto
• Brie O'Reilly — Langley, B.C.
• Quinn Pelland — Wanham, Alta.
• Anna Smrek — Welland, Ont.
• Raya Surinx — Winnipeg
• Nyadholi Thokbuom — Calgary
• Kiera Van Ryk — Surrey, B.C.
• Delaney Watson — St. Jacobs, Ont.
• Jazmine White — Oshawa, Ont.