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Canadian women's 3x3 team scores pair of wins at French tourney

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Canada's women's 3x3 basketball team is picking up right where it left off. The group of Katherine and Michelle Plouffe, Paige Crozon and Kacie Bosch beat Azerbaijan 21-17 and Italy 17-9 to tip off their first stop of the 2023 FIBA 3X3 Women's Series in Orléans, France on Friday.

That foursome of Canadians did not drop a game during the entire 2022 season en route to winning the championship. But 2023 started with a tinge of disappointment, falling in the World Cup quarterfinals to reigning gold medallist France earlier in June.

Canada's wins on Friday clinched the top spot in Group A and secured a spot in Saturday's quarterfinals. Live coverage will be available beginning at 1 p.m.

ET on CBCSports.ca, the CBC Sports app and CBC Gem. Against the Azerbaijani side Neftchi, Michelle Plouffe led the way with eight points, including a pair of makes from beyond the arc (baskets are counted by ones and twos in 3x3).

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