RICHMOND – Going into last Saturday’s state title game, the girls basketball team from Floyd County was the heavy favorite to repeat as the Virginia’s small school Group A Division 2 champions. The Buffaloes had four of their five starters back from last year’s champs, and were facing the George Mason High School Mustangs of Falls Church, who they’d vanquished in last year’s semifinals, and who had lost most of its stars to graduation in the meantime.
But it was not meant to be, not this time.
