Lafayette coach Craig Wortman gave his boys' cross country team goal times to hit at the mile mark in the Group 3A state race on Saturday. They hit their times almost perfectly, but he didn't expect to find his team winning the meet by 60 points and see almost his entire top 7 taking up the top 10 or 15 places. With some of the other top contending teams in the race taking the preferred and popular state meet race approach of a conservative first mile then moving up, the Lafayette boys had to continue to roll, not look back, and hold on for the next two miles as runners from Western Albemarle, Brentsville, and Blacksburg would all be trying to make up the distance on the Rams. The strategy ended up working out brilliantly for Lafayette as it was too much ground for the competition to make up and Lafayette's first mile splits were not too fast or took too much energy out of them to allow their runners to still finish strong enough in the last half of the race to secure the...
