TORONTO � Shannon Boxx, Megan Rapinoe, Lindsay Tarpley, and Lauren Cheney scored to lead the United States to a 4-0 victory over Canada in a friendly Monday night.

The top-ranked Americans spoiled the home debut of Canada coach Carolina Morace.
The defending Olympic gold medalists signed on to play the game earlier this month after Japan pulled out; the Americans were making their first trip north of the border in eight years. They caught the 11th-ranked Canadians for an early goal and it was almost all United States from that point on.
Boxx scored in the second minute, running onto a pass, taking two steps and firing a shot from just outside the penalty area past goalkeeper Karina LeBlanc and into the left corner of the net.
Rapinoe gave the Americans a two-goal lead in injury time before the break, hitting a shot from just inside the box that tucked into the lower right corner of the net.
Tarpley�s goal came in the 77th minute from a scramble in front of the net off a corner kick, and the Americans would score again in the 80th, with Cheney connecting on a cross from Heather O�Reilly and heading it backward into the net
�The Canadians are always a challenge for us because they�re a tough strong team, but now you can see they�re working the ball, they�re possessing,� Boxx said. �She wants them to play, not just hit that long ball and hit those tough balls in the air, she wants them to play on the ground.�
Neither Canadian star Christine Sinclair nor American striker Abby Wambach was able to connect for her 100th career goal.
The United States is 38-3-4 all-time against Canada, and outshot the host team 18-7.
The Americans controlled play for much of the night with their speed and crisp passes, and neither U.S. goalkeeper, Hope Solo and Nicole Barnhart, had to make a difficult save. Canada�s shots either sailed wide or over the net, and the only one on net, by Sinclair in the first half, went straight to Solo�s hands, eliciting a groan from the crowd of 10,255.
�Obviously we didn�t come out to lose 4-0, but I think we did a lot of good things as a team,� said midfielder Kara Lang. �We�re all getting used to it, it�s a lot of changes but a lot of very, very positive changes, and we�re very excited for what�s to come.�