The sixth-ranked Japanese women's curling team suffered its second loss of round-robin play Monday after an 8-3 defeat to Canada in the preliminary round at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics.
In their sixth game at Gangneung Curling Centre, the Japanese foursome allowed Canada to get on the scoreboard first with a single point steal in the first end, and let the top-ranked Canadian team capitalize on their mistakes to pull away for victory.
Japan skip Satsuki Fujisawa played a raise shot to score the game-tying point in the second end, but a failed shot from Fujisawa and an accurate take-out by opposing skip Rachel Homan added four points to Canada's score to make it 6-1 in the fifth end.