 Bywater was GB's top scorer in Tuesday's defeat |
Great Britain's men's and women's wheelchair basketball teams suffered defeats on the second day of their Visa Paralympic World Cup campaigns. The men lost 70-55 to Paralympic gold medallists Canada with Joey Johnson top-scoring on 20 points - one more than GB's Terry Bywater.
They then went down 68-35 to Australia later on in their final group match.
Meanwhile, GB women, who beat China and Spain on Monday, wrapped up their group games with a 46-34 defeat to Mexico.
Lucia Bezquez Delgadillo notched up 14 points for the Mexicans as they sent GB, whose top-scorer was Caroline Matthews on 12 points, to their first defeat of the tournament. All the teams in both tournaments head into the semi-final stages on Wednesday, with the British men's team facing Canada once more and the women up against Spain.
The British men's team, who beat Sweden 54-49 on Monday, remained upbeat despite their defeats on Tuesday.
British player Joe Bestwick, 21, said: "It was a much-improved display than the one against Sweden. "We tried a few different things and it was only a 16-point game against the best in the world."
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