{"id":11673,"date":"2025-07-21T00:19:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T00:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/11673\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T00:19:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T00:19:09","slug":"canada-men-close-vnl-prelims-with-win-over-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/11673\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada men close VNL prelims with win over Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Canada ended Volleyball Nations League men\u2019s preliminary round on a high note, beating Ukraine 3-1 in Ljubljana, Slovenia, on Sunday.HO\/The Canadian Press<\/p>\n

Canada closed out the Volleyball Nations League men\u2019s preliminary round with a 3-1 (25-21, 25-27, 31-29, 25-21) win over Ukraine on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Sitting in 12th in the VNL standings, Canada did not make the elimination round and will look ahead to the world championships in September. Ukraine needed a win to advance to the elimination round taking place in China.<\/p>\n

Canada led in attack points (64-61), blocking points (9-6) and aces (6-4). However, the two sides were equal in errors at 27 apiece.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was very impressed with the group today \u2013 the entire team stayed focused for a very important match that finishes this VNL campaign for Canada,\u201d said Canada head coach Dan Lewis.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m proud of the way the guys executed today. Many new players were on the court, who have been patient and working very hard and are always ready to contribute at any moment. \u2026 We\u2019re looking forward to our next section of training that allows us to prepare for the world championships.\u201d<\/p>\n

Canada\u2019s Skyler Varga led all scoring with 27 points (24 attacks, two blocks, one ace), followed by teammates Jordan Canham (14 points) and Jesse Elser (12 points).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: Canada ended Volleyball Nations League men\u2019s preliminary round on a high note, beating…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11674,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[901,888,902,879,877,903,49,48,876,895,896,891,878,875,46,549,295,894,887,914,880,881,893,889,890,884,904,885,909,910,44,912,907,911,905,908,882,898,899,714,897,906,865,61,900,892,886,883,913],"class_list":["post-11673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-alberta","tag-arts-news","tag-bc","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-video","tag-british-columbia","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canada-news","tag-canada-sports","tag-canada-sports-news","tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","tag-canadian-breaking-news","tag-canadian-news","tag-economy","tag-education","tag-environment","tag-federal-government","tag-foreign-news","tag-globe-and-mail","tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","tag-government","tag-life-news","tag-lifestyle","tag-local-news","tag-manitoba","tag-national-news","tag-new-brunswick","tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","tag-news","tag-northwest-territories","tag-nova-scotia","tag-nunavut","tag-ontario","tag-pei","tag-photos","tag-political-news","tag-political-opinion","tag-politics","tag-politics-news","tag-quebec","tag-sports-news","tag-technology","tag-travel","tag-trudeau","tag-us-news","tag-world-news","tag-yukon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}