wuhan, oct. 20 (xinhua) -- china thrashed canada 3-0 on sunday to reach the women's volleyball semifinals at the 7th cism military world games.
gao yi scored a game-high 12 points to lead the chinese team to a 25-11, 25-5, 25-19 victory in pool a with li yingying and yang junjing adding nine apiece.
"we are going for the title this time, but we have to take one match at a time. now we are focusing on our next opponents," said chinese head coach wu xiaojiang.
earlier on sunday, brazil beat the united states in straight sets of 25-6, 25-14, 25-10 to finish second in pool a.
dpr korea overcame the netherlands 3-0 (25-4, 25-13, 25-13) to lead pool b with three wins in a row and germany saw off france 3-0 (25-17, 25-19, 25-22) for their second win in three matches and a berth in the top four.
china will take on germany in monday's semifinal while dpr korea play against brazil.