Canadian women’s volleyball team eliminated at world championship

SAPPORO, Japan — The Canadian women’s volleyball team has been knocked out of the world championship.

A 3-1 loss (23-25, 27-25, 25-21, 25-21) to Bulgaria (2-3) on Wednesday prevented Canada (1-4) from moving on to the second round.

Instead, it’s Bulgaria taking the fourth and final second-round spot out of the six-team Pool B. Canada came fifth.

“Our goal for this world championship was to advance to the second round and we’re extremely disappointed we didn’t do that,” Canada captain Kyla Richey said. “Yesterday (win over Cuba) and today were really important, and we couldn’t finish and get to the second round, so we’re really disappointed.”