Hill-Murray coach Mark Lindemer called Alpine skiing “one of the brutalist sports out there” given the variance that can occur on any given day. Lose one edge heading around a gate on the wrong day, ...

“If we had a decent second run,” said Nate Springer, head coach of the Eden Prairie High School alpine ski team, “I thought the numbers would hold and that our girls would win a section title.

The Hopkinton High girls’ ski team knew that defending its Division III Alpine state title wouldn’t be easy and that Gilford ...