The Lake Conference Nordic Skiing Sprint Relays for girls and boys were held under fair skies with temperatures in the low 30s Jan. 16 at Elm Creek Park Reserve in Maple Grove.
Since both previous Lake Conference skiing dates were held in far less favorable weather, the balmy weather seemed to make everyone faster.
Wayzata won team championships in both sprint divisions and the Wayzata girls duo of ninth-grader Claire Britton and junior Lila Golomb was the fastest team on the course with a time of 11:39.3 for the prelim race and a time of 11:30.0 in the final. They had a comfortable margin over second-place Minnetonka while Eden Prairie took third place…