Sports
Covering the biggest moments of Buffalo High School athletics and athletes.
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Boy’s varsity basketball making their way towards that section finals game with a win at home against Elk River. The boys beat Elk River 85-66. The starters with a great game they had points from Aidan Bouman [29], Matthew Willert [20], Brandon Maatz [19], and Tony Dahl [12]. The game was very back and forth throughout the first half. The score was 36-30 with the Bison winning going into the intermission. This is what Junior…
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Going into the 2019 season for the Bison Boys Baseball, there are a lot of exciting events that are highlighting the way for them, here at Buffalo High School. There are a variety of things that teams do to get in shape for the season, and the Bison Baseball team is getting an early start to doing just that. For this season, the team has been training after school, in the night time, and getting…
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Buffalo High School Senior Erin Bersie wrestled sophomore Adam El-Damir of Wayzata on February 8 at Mound Westonka High School. Adam went in for a move, Bersie was moved the wrong way and tore her hamstring. The whistle the blown and Bersie was on the ground in pain. Trainers and coaches had to help her up to check her out. The injury was verified and her season immediately ended. “I initially kinda thought I could…
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Activities Director Tom Bauman has the challenging responsibility of managing sports funding. Bauman controls the money distribution between sports and makes every attempt to ensure that it is fair. His job also involves educating people on how sports are not funded equally, but fairly, because people tend to come to negative conclusions very quickly. The Buffalo-Hanover-Montrose school district has a yearly operating budget of fifty-five million dollars that must cover all spending for every schools’…
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On Friday night Buffalo faced their rival St. Michael in Boys Basketball. The bison ended up winning by 16 with a final score 63-47. With St.Michael one game ahead of Buffalo in the conference standings, Buffalo came into the game motivated to tie up St.Michael at the top of the Mississippi 8 Conference. Buffalo started out with great tempo and kept it up for most of game still holding a 16 point lead with…
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Girls varsity basketball moved another step closer to their goal of Conference Champs after a come-from-behind 45-43 victory in Monticello. Tuesday night, girls varsity basketball players Reese Wishart and Alyssa Sorenson scored 5 points in the last 30 seconds to beat the Monticello Magic on their home court. The game was close throughout. Buffalo led the first half but not by much. The second half began and the lead went back and forth, Monticello would…
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The Buffalo boys hockey team came into sections hot, going undefeated in the last 13 games. They kept the hot streak going as they beat St. Michael-Albertville 4-0 with goals from Jake Braccini, Ben Klein and two from Tyler Braccini. “The rink was packed full, there was a lot of excitement rolling and we knew it’d be tough to take down STMA three games in a row but we got it done not allowing a…
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The Buffalo boy’s lacrosse team has been changing coaches in the recent years. They are adding middle school teacher, Jason Tornell, in the place of assistant coach. They are adding him because of the loss to the program of assistant coach, Louie Clifton. Steve Lund, assistant coach for varsity and head coach of junior varsity, is hoping to make more of an impact this year. Bjorn Pederson, defenseman on the team had this to say…
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The rivalry between STMA and Buffalo is one that all students know about in all sports here at BHS. The Boys Varsity hockey team faced-off against the St.Michael-Albertville Knights in the Mississippi 8 Conference Championship game played on Saturday February 9th. With a final score of 8-1, the Bison captured its first Conference title since 2013. During the game, the junior all star, Jake Braccini netted six or the eight goals scored in this…
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Junior Brandon Maatz drained a buzzer beater for the Bison Boys Basketball team to cap off a 72-71 home win over the Monticello Magic last night. The win brings the boys’ overall record to 15-6 and a tie with St. Michael-Albertville for First Place in the Mississippi 8 Conference. “When I shot the ball first, and it went in, I didn’t know what happened,” Maatz said, “until Aidan [Bouman] came up and hugged me and…
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