The Cougar Redundancy Principle

The last time a Mabel-Canton volleyball team started the season with a loss in their first ten games was 2010. Thus, it wasn’t any surprise (redundant) the #3 Cougars won a two hands-full without a blemish. They beat G-E 25-4, 25-6, 25-8 (Coranda Vickerman 15 assists, 7 digs, 3 aces; Savannah Slafter 8 kills; Dakota Delaney 6 kills; Courtney Graves 5 kills; Lexi Thorson 5 kills, 4 aces; Payton Danielson 17-18 serving, 5 aces; Kenidi McCabe 9 assists, 12-12 serving, 6 aces). Last year’s SEC-West champion Schaeffer Academy fell 25-18, 25-23, 25-11 (Slafter 12 kills, 10 digs; Vickerman 16 assists, 11 kills, 10 digs; Danielson 11 digs, 17-17 serving, 2 aces). M-C then handled things at their Labor Day Tourney. Of their six pool play matches, only Grand Meadow made 20. The Cougars swept GM (25-18, 28-26), Cotter (25-9, 25-15), Brainerd (25-16, 25-10), Waukon (25-9, 25-11), R-P (25-12, 25-15), and Spring Grove (25-17, 25-16). The final saw the Cougars go over the Larks (headed by former M-C stand-out Tori Lind-Burmester) in straight sets (25-16, 25-9). Tourney leaders were: Vickerman (56 kills, 88 assists), Slafter (50 kills, hit .500, 41 digs), Danielson (38 digs, 12 aces), Thorson (51 assists, 36 digs), and McCabe (36 digs, 10 aces). The wins moved the Cougars to 3-0, 10-0 on the year. Vickerman surpassed 2,000 career assists.