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The Buffalo Bison wrestling team defeated Big Lake at home Thursday night 36-32. With this win, the Bison finishes their regular season with a 4-14 record, the team’s first win since December. The match came down to the wire in the last match as seventh grader Adam Treptau reversed a pinning predicament into a pinfall of his own. Treptau sealed the win for the Bison on Gerry Bakke Night, despite scoring fewer points in his…

“I loved when you get a good discussion going,” said Gerry Bakke, “you get both sides of the room really going at it. It is one of my best memories as a teacher.” Thursday marked the final retirement celebration for long time Social Studies teacher and wrestling coach Gerry Bakke. After 30 years of teaching, his retirement was finalized on October 25. Bakke greeted friends, family, and fans in the cafeteria from 5-7, when the…

It was too little, too late for the Boy’s Hockey team last night when they played against Hopkins. The Bison lost 1-5. The game started out slow, and eventually gained some speed when Hopkins scored the first goal of the game with three minutes left in the first period. The Bison didn’t give up and made several good shots at the goal but ended the first period with a score of 0-1. The second period…

Swimmers step up, take your marks, GOOOOOOO. And they’re off. On Thursday night, Buffalo hosted 5 Teams at the JV championships. Teams that were involved were Cambridge-Isanti, Monticello, Princeton, St. Michael, and Buffalo. They hosted this championship for those who didn’t make it to sections. Overall the Buffalo’s JV team fell short a few points and got 2nd overall. Cambridge won the meet. The meet started off very well. Buffalo’s A Medley Relay team got…

The Buffalo Boys’ Basketball team entered the 11th Annual Pat Sonju Memorial basketball game against the Moorhead Spuds on Saturday afternoon riding a 13 game winning streak. The Pat Sonju game is played on the first Saturday in February every year, in honor of Pat Sonju who died in October 1999. Pat was a former player, and was the Head Coach of the Bison at the time of his death. Each year, two high school…

Teaching is much more than just getting the lesson out and assigning homework. Teachers have a huge impact on students lives, inside and outside of the classroom.  But how? Senora Nancy Eiynck, one of the Spanish teachers at Buffalo High Schoo,l is trying to make a difference. “I’m trying to make a difference by making connections and interacting with students,”  Eiycnk said.  She has many students each year, so she meets many new people.  So…

Buffalo plays Hopkins tonight at 7:00 P.M. at the Buffalo Civic center. The top three goal scorers for buffalo are Aaron Rouse with 15 points then Sam Klein and Tony Thein with 14 points. For Hopkins Tanner Holmquist is leading with 41 points. Kyle Dalton with 29 points and Conner Thei with 19. For goalies; Buffalo’s Blake Schmidt has a save percentage of .858 and Hopkin’s Ryan Hazuka has a save percentage of .864. Buffalo…

Most students, when the clock hits 2:20, hurry toward the doors to get to their cars, and buses so that they can get home or to work, but there are many others kids who continue their day not in the classroom but in the weight room or on the indoor track in the BAC, training and bettering themselves for the upcoming season. There is a long line of spring sports offered at Buffalo High School…

On Tuesdays and Thursdays students at Buffalo High School walk into the lunch room grab their lunch, grab any extra’s they want, and an estimated 5-10% of students purchase their “Berry Blendz” smoothies of all different flavors. The lunch room sells these smoothies for $3.00 during all lunches. The cost of the ingredients in the smoothies they sell at Buffalo High School is 20-30% of the cost of the smoothie; therefore they make $2.10 per…

Bison girls captured another Conference win over Cambridge-Isanti with a total score 62-43 on Tuesday at home. The win keeps the Bison holding the number two seed in the conference. The Bison are 10-1 in conference and 17-3 overall. The two teams were neck and neck throughout the first half resulting in a 23-18 lead over the Blue Jackets at halftime. The Bison came out during the second half with a consistant lead the remaining…