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Lafayette Boys, Girls Win First Bay Rivers District Indoor Track Meet

December 5, 2013 By Will Armbruster

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Lafayette’s Deborah Allison returns as one of the best track athletes in the state for Lafayette’s girls team this season. (File photo)AMAN                  

      Area athletes kicked off the 2013-14 indoor track and field season Wednesday evening, competing in the first 10-team Bay Rivers District meet of the season at the Boo Williams Sportsplex in Hampton.

Lafayette’s boys and girls both showed themselves to be the teams to beat this season, as the Rams boys team edged runner-up Tabb 155-106 while the girls outscored the second-place Tigers 156-69.

On the girls side, Lafayette’s Deborah Allison, who is also playing basketball for the Rams this winter, and Kathryn Tomczak were both dual-event winners. Allison won the 55-meter hurdles in 9.01 and the triple jump with a 34-foot, 1-inch leap while Tomczak took first place in the high jump (4-06.00) and pole vault (10-06.00).

Grafton’s Rachel Bloxom also won a pair of events. She edged York’s Cameron Clements by less than two seconds to win the 1,000-meter run in 3:17.10 and then held off Clements again in the 1,600 to win in 5:33.56.

The boys side produced one dual-event winner- Tabb’s Blair Allen, who set personal bests in the long jump (20-07.00) and 55-meter dash (6.74).

Click here for complete results of Wednesday’s meet, courtesy of milestat.com.

The next 10-team district meet will be held January 15 at the Boo Williams Sportsplex. Several area teams will first take part in the annual Christopher Newport University Invitational next Friday, December 13 (beginning at 2 p.m.) and Saturday, December 14 (beginning at 7 a.m.).