Sports
Covering the biggest moments of Buffalo High School athletics and athletes.
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Buffalo has never blown away the State with its athletic programs. The school won its first athletic team State Title in 2007, beating Robbinsdale Armstrong in the class 4A basketball final. Two years later, Buffalo’s track and field team found its way to winning their first State Title in 2009. This is arguably the peak of Buffalo’s athletics winning two State Titles within two years. At the same time, the school had a superb football…
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The girls basketball team played on Friday, January 27th at 7:15 p.m. at St. Francis. Buffalo’s record this year is 15-10 and they are 7-5 in conference going into Friday night. “The season is going pretty well,” said Head Coach Scot Sorenson. “We lost a couple close games but we also beat some very good teams. We finished 3rd in conference and we are the fourth seed going into sections next Tuesday against Moorhead. ”…
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There’s a twitter page going around and being talked about called “Puck Sluts 101.” The page tells you things that girls usually say or do at hockey games. Puck sluts are girls that go to hockey games and claim that they know whats going on. Mainly the girls at the hockey games are for the sole fact of the hot boys or their boyfriends. Urban dictionary’s definition of a puck slut is…. “A ‘hockey fan,’ usually female,…
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The Buffalo Bison had a great run this season. Our hope next year is the Girls Hockey team can pick up where they left off. Girl’s Hockey faced the Edina Hornets in St. Paul at 1:00 p.m. at the Excel Energy Center in the State Quarterfinals. Fan support was enthusiastic with 21 buses, people driving from home along with a pep band and an administration that realized the value of their teams passion. The game…
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In 2013 Cheerleading was cut from being school funded only to be replaced by two title nine equalizers, Boys Swim & Dive and Girls Dance Team. Since then there has been a small amount of tension between the recently school funded Cheerleading squad, and the new addition, Dance team. Both are considered sports by the athletes that make up the team, but for others who don’t know the first thing about them… not so much.…
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Nerves were running high on February 13th at the Brainerd Hockey Areana during the Section 8AA championship hockey game. “Before the game, I was not that nervous until I actually started warming up and saw the other team,” said Senior Sydney Driver. “When we were on the ice doing starting line ups, my stomach starting flipping and I got butterflies.” During the first period, the momentum went back and fourth between the Bison and the Rams.…
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Are you or someone you know a sports bandwagoner? A sports bandwagon fan is someone who only supports a team in periods of success. These are the people you see wearing Chicago Blackhawks hats not knowing what sport they play, or people who just started to like a team that recently won a championship. Bandwagoners make the years of loyalty and dedication for a team’s true fans go unrecognized and unappreciated. “I wear my Avalanche…
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Buffalo Boy’s Hockey suffers loss against St. Michael-Albertville. The STMA Knights are now conference champions. The St Michael-Albertville Arena was overflowing with fans waiting for the puck to drop. The closest available parking spaces were no closer than a block away from the arena. After entering you would not be able to see the game but rather a massive sea of people crowding the stands at each end. The Buffalo student section was the same size as the…
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“School Spirit” seems to have disappeared in the BHS student section this year. The scarcity of enthusiasm this year makes the student section almost seem lifeless. In past years, the student section has roared with excitement, rocking the building. Fans have seemed to have lacked that sort of excitement of roaring chants or Super Fans. ”We don’t have that shock and awe factor we have had in previous years.” junior defefensemen Michael Sawdey.…
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With this years basketball season nearing the end of the year there is one question about the team. Who is going to coach the team next year? Boys’ Basketball Head Coach Nick Guida and Activities Director Tom Bauman have taken new roles at BHS. Bauman has taken the Project Manager role for the referendum that passed last fall and Guida will be taking over his job as the Activities Director. There’s always an end to…
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