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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Canada has advanced to the quarter-finals on the womens side of the Emirates Airline Dubai Rugby Sevens, winning two of three pool games Thursday. Adidas Stan Smith Sverige .Ghislaine Landry contributed 19 points via three tries and two conversions in a 26-10 win over Brazil and was one of seven Canadian try-scorers in a 47-5 romp over Fiji.The day ended on a down note in a 17-12 decision to England, which ran up a 12-0 halftime lead. Bianca Farella and Jen Kish scored second-half tries for Canada.We obviously fell short of our Day 1 goal of being a top seed with the loss to England, said Canadian coach John Tait. Other than a few wrinkles in the Brazil game, we were building well towards our match with England, especially with the quality we showed against Fiji.Unfortunately when we played England, we just took too many needless penalties which led to them capitalizing on us scrambling back and falling off one too many tackles. England is just too good a side to make those compounding errors against.The Canadian women, second in Pool C, will face the Pool A runner-up Americans in the knockout round.The top four mens and womens teams at the end of the season automatically qualify for the 2016 Olympics.Win and we will be holding a top-four qualifying position and not adding any more pressure moving towards the next event, Tait said of the U.S. matchup. U.S.A. is physical and plays a simple direct game plan. We know what to expect but will need to impose the way we want to play and make sure we control the tempo and not them.The other quarter-finals are New Zealand versus Russia, England versus France and Australia versus Fiji.The 12-team tournament is the first of six on the womens circuit.The Canadian men begin play Friday in Dubai, which is the second stop on the HSBC Sevens World Series. NMD Skor Rea . Yet coming off consecutive series losses at St. Louis and Pittsburgh, Los Angeles needed some sort of spark as August approaches. The Dodgers found it in the ballpark of their biggest rival, and left the Bay Area in first place following an emphatic three-game swing. Adidas NMD R1 Rea . He left in the 4th inning of Saturdays game against the Tigers after experiencing tightness. Reyes and the team still hope that he will be ready for Opening Day in Tampa Bay in one week. http://www.nmdsverige.com/superstar-adidas-skor/herr.html . His head snapped back from the impact and hit the floor. The All-Star power forward was all right afterward, a relief for the Minnesota Timberwolves.JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- With over $20 million of cap space available for 2014, the Jacksonville Jaguars figure to be active in the free-agency market in the off-season. Friday, the team made sure one of their top defensive players didnt join that market. The Jaguars signed defensive tackle SenDerrick Marks to a 4-year contract extension worth a reported $22 million. Marks had signed a one-year deal with the team last spring after spending his four seasons with the Tennessee Titans. He would have become a free agent Monday had he not signed an extension Friday. Jacksonville general manager Dave Caldwell said Marks and the Jaguars were a good fit and that there were reasons to get the deal done before the end of the season. "The player wanted to be here; two, we wanted him here; and three, we were able to do it before the season ended and put some of the money into this years salary cap," Caldwell said. Marks has been one of the few bright spots for a defence that has strugggled this year. Adidas Falcon Sverige. He has started all 15 games and has 28 tackles, seven pass breakups and four sacks. He has played in 84 per cent of the teams defensive plays this season. Marks said he was surprised that the deal was finalized before the end of the season. "Its very cool. I didnt expect it," he said. "I thought it was going to go all the way until the off-season, but I was never worried about what would happen. "My job is to go out and continue to play. We still have a game left, so I didnt even think about it." Jaguars coach Gus Bradley said the signing of Marks was an indication of the direction the team is going. "Its all about the direction we want to go to get key people like SenDerrick," Bradley said. "Hes done a great job; great job competing, great job leading with our younger guys in the meeting room every day. We knew SenDerrick really wanted to be here and to get it accomplished at this time is awesome." ' ' '