Rory Grande boarded Erie High’s van for last weekend’s McQuaid Invitational with the belief he’d start in the cross country meet’s elite Gold race.
He departed it persuaded by coach Robert Danielson to enter the Rochester, New York, meet’s Class 3A boys event.
Whatever disappointment Grande harbored was gone by the time the Royals returned home from Genesee Valley Park. The senior’s winning time of 15 minutes, 12.50 seconds was more than 18 seconds faster than that race’s silver medalist, Thomas Steele of meet host McQuaid Jesuit…