{"id":140221,"date":"2025-09-13T04:48:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T04:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/140221\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T04:48:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T04:48:09","slug":"canada-beats-libya-3-1-in-world-mens-volleyball-championship-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/140221\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada beats Libya 3-1 in World Men&#8217;s Volleyball Championship opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2014 Canada&#8217;s national team spotted Libya an early lead before storming back to win its opening match at the 2025 World Men&#8217;s Volleyball Championship in the Philippines on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>After dropping the first set 25-22 in the best-of-five preliminary phase, Canada bounced back with 25-20, 25-12 and 29-27 wins to post the first W in Pool G, which also includes Japan and Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Canada will play Japan on Sunday and face Turkey on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Canada led Libya in a number of key areas such as blocks (12-9), attacks (15-49) and service winners (15-3).<\/p>\n<p>Sharone Vernon-Evans led Canada&#8217;s scorers with 22 points, while Nicholas Hoag had 20.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 12, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MANILA \u2014 Canada&#8217;s national team spotted Libya an early lead before storming back to win its opening match&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140222,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[75467,49,48,12516,44],"class_list":["post-140221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-2025-world-mens-volleyball-championship","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-libya","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140221","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=140221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}