Canada's Heather Bansley (L) and Sarah Pavan celebrate after winning the women's beach volleyball round of 16 match between Canada and Canada at the Beach Volley Arena in Rio de Janeiro on August 13, 2016, for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.YASUYOSHI CHIBA/AFP / Getty Images
Undefeated Canadians Sarah Pavan and Heathen Bansley advanced to the quarter-finals of the Rio Olympic women's beach volleyball tournament on Saturday while dispatching another Canadian pair in the process.
Pavan of Kitchener, Ont., and Bansley, of Waterdown, Ont., topped Victoria's Jamie Broder and Toronto's Kristina Valjas 2-0 to earn their fourth straight win of the Rio Games.
Set scores were 21-16, 21-11.
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Pavan and Bansley, who opened the tournament with three straight wins in the preliminary round to top Pool E with six points, fired three aces and had 26 digs to Broder and Valjas' 14.
Broder and Valjas were 2-1 through round-robin play, good for second place in their pool.
Canada sent the maximum four teams to Rio — two men's teams and two women's teams.
One of the men's pairs, Ben Saxton and Chaim Schalk, fell 2-0 to the Netherlands later Saturday.
Robert Meeuwsen had three services aces as the Dutch took the match 21-12, 21-15. The Canadians had 12 errors compared to five from the Netherlands.
Canada's Josh Binstock and Sam Schachter did not advance to the Round of 16.