Jocelyne Larocque scored decrease than 4 minutes into the game, Sarah Nurse added a goal midway by means of the first interval and Canada cruised to a 4-1 win over the United States in Boise, Idaho on Sunday to take a 2-1 lead inside the five-game Rivalry Series.
Emerance Maschmeyer had 36 saves for Canada.
Kristin O’Neill scored a goal inside the second interval and Emily Clark capped the scoring with 3:55 to play.
Laila Edwards scored for the U.S. to trim the deficit to 3-1 with about six minutes remaining.
WATCH l Canada takes down U.S. in Idaho, leads sequence 2-1
The teams confronted off for the third time — in three fully completely different cities — in 5 days. The United States gained the opener 7-2 on Wednesday in San Jose, California, and Canada tied the sequence Friday with 5-4 shootout victory in Salt Lake City.
The remaining two video video games will in all probability be carried out in Canada in February.
The 36-year-old Larocque, the oldest participant inside the sequence this 12 months, cleaned up a scramble in entrance of the web to open the scoring with 16:30 left inside the first interval and Canada led the rest of one of the simplest ways.