The U.S. women’s curling team picked up an historic win back on February 13 when they defeated Canada, 9-8, in a round-robin match.

It was Team USA’s first women’s curling win over the country in Olympic history. The Canadians - winners of five Olympic curling medals, including two golds - were 9-0 all-time against the U.S. up to that point.

Now, Tabitha Peterson’s team will need to beat Canada again if they want to leave Cortina with a medal.

Both teams lost their semifinals on Friday to set up a bronze medal match meeting on Saturday morning. A win in that game would give Canada its first women’s curling medal since 2014, and the U.S. it’s first medal ever.

“We know what we’ve got to do,” Peterson said. “We’ve just got to go out there and just think of it as another game and run our process and focus on what we can control out there.”

The U.S. is currently 6-4 in Cortina, and was the No. 2 seed in the semifinals before losing to No. 3 Switzerland, 7-4, in the semifinals on Friday.

Even though they’re coming off of a loss, players are confident they can turn things around.

"We're playing really well, so a little bit of flushing that game and getting ready to play hard tomorrow to come home with a medal,” said Cory Thiesse.

Canada came to this Olympics as the definitive favorites. Rachel Homan’s team won the last two world championships but struggled early in Cortina. That loss to Team USA was the first of three in a row for Homan’s team, who started 1-3.

They turned things around and won their final five games of round-robin play to get into the semis as the No. 4 seed.

Canada fell to the bronze medal match after losing to Sweden, 6-3, in the semifinals on Thursday.

"We didn't come out as sharp as we'd like to. And yes, we didn't play a great game,” Homan said of the semifinal. "The game is over. There's nothing we can do about it, and we will just fully focus on tomorrow.”

Homan is playing in her third Olympics. Two of her other three teammates are making their Olympic debuts.

Canada hasn’t won a women’s curling medal since 2014.

"It would mean everything,” Homan said of winning bronze. “We're just going to go to school tomorrow, try and nail every shot, and fight hard for our country."

Thiesse said her team won’t be intimidated by their opponent.

"They're the No.1-ranked team in the world, but, you know, it's the Olympics, and that pressure can be hard sometimes, and you just never know," Thiesse said.

The U.S. is guaranteed to at least match its best ever Olympic finish. They finished fourth at the 2002 Games. As one of just six countries to have played in every women's curling tournament in the Olympics since it was introduced in 1998, they're the only one of those teams to have never won a medal.

If Team USA were to win Saturday's game, Thiesse could become the first woman to win two curling medals in a single Olympics. She became the first U.S. woman to win a curling medal earlier in Cortina when she took silver in mixed doubles with partner Korey Dropkin.

Sweden's Oskar Eriksson is the only other athlete to have won two curling medals in the same Olympics when he won men's gold and mixed doubles bronze in 2022.

The women’s curling bronze medal match between Team USA and Canada will begin at 8:05 a.m. ET on Saturday. It will stream live on Peacock and NBCOlympics.com