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The Bison Softball team won their season and home opener 9-5 against conference opponent Cambridge-Isanti on Tuesday night. Last season the Bison and the Bluejackets shared the Mississippi 8 Conference title both with a 14-2 conference record. “It felt really good to beat them by that much especially since they were a big competitor last year. They had also played 2 games before so it felt good to win our first game,” said Junior Haley Prim. It…
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The Bison Boys’ basketball team fell to the Brainerd Warriors 67-69 in a double overtime battle on Tuesday night. This was the first Section game and the winner would go on to play the winner between Moorehead and STMA, and the loser would end its season. The Bison were seeded first in the section so they played the number eight seed Brainerd, but the section was so evenly balanced the whole bracket almost got flipped.…
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The Buffalo Boys’ basketball team heads into section play after two Conference wins against Cambridge-Isanti on Thursday and Becker on Friday. They will end their regular season with a record of 17-9. The Bison were scheduled to take a trip up to play Cambridge-Isanti on Tuesday, but because of the winter storm warnings the game was postponed until Thursday. They had to play earlier than usual because of the C-I girls teams’ home section game…
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Last weekend, four Buffalo students placed high enough at the wrestling sections match to move on to State. It took place in Hopkins on Friday and Saturday and in order to make it to state, the athletes had to place first or second in their weight class. Eighth grader Adam Treptau, Junior Jonathan Wirkkala and Senior Lucas Mock all took second place while Senior Tanner Maus gained the title of Section Champ. State is tomorrow and…
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Junior Jackson Elliot swam the 100 butterfly in Elk River on February 25. He took fourth place at Sections with a State-qualifying time of 54.29 seconds. During the preliminary day of Sections, where swimmers have to place in the top 16 to advance, Elliott swam the 500 freestyle and afterwards threw up six times and passed out. He was up until four o’clock the next morning throwing up, getting only two hours of sleep before…
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The Buffalo Boys’ basketball team fell to STMA last night in a Conference Title matchup. The Knights were 8-1 in the conference before the game and the Bison were 7-2, so the Conference Title would have still been in reach if the Bison would have came out on top. This season could be the first season since the 2005-06 season that the Bison have not come out on the top of the Conference. The Bison started…
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The Boys’ Swim and Dive team hosted a spaghetti dinner at the St. Francis Xavier Educational Center last Saturday night. Their team is self-funded and this is one of the three big fundraisers they have to do to stay afloat. The spaghetti dinner has been around for three years and this year was the biggest turnout yet. Usually, there is leftover food to be frozen, but this year there was barely enough. Besides the dinner…
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The Boys’ Basketball team hosted Minnapolis South for its 12th annual memorial game in honor of Pat Sonju on Saturday. The varsity team won the game 59-47. Sonju was the former head basketball coach who suddenly died in the fall of 1999. Usually taking place in late January or early February, Bison basketball celebrate the life of a loved coach by playing the game that he loved: Basketball. This year the team raised money for the Pat…
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The Bison Varsity Boys hockey team lost to the St.Michael/Albertville Knights on Tuesday. The game was at home for the Bison, and what could have been a close game ended in a tough loss. In the first period, right off the bat both teams were becoming aggressive with each other and skating hard. Both teams received close shots into the goal but at the end of the first period it was still zero to zero. Second period…
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Jon Holtz announced this week that 2012 will be his last year coaching BHS gymnastics. Holtz has been coaching gymnastics for 17 years. Martha Driscoll-Nelson will continue coaching gymnastics without him and will also be searching for a new gymnastics coach. “It’s mainly about my family,” said Holtz. “I have two boys at home who need more dad time. And the past three years our gymnasts have been amazing, it’s good to go out on…
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