Sports
Covering the biggest moments of Buffalo High School athletics and athletes.
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With track season beginning in under a week, many seniors are preparing for their final track season in high school. “I’m trying to get a lot of vaulting and lifting in,” said senior pole vaulter Mitchell Valli. “I try to do both three times a week so I am ready to go.” This year will be a special one for these students. It will be the last time they get to wear the purple and…
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Behind new leadership and perspective with a new coach, the Buffalo Dance Team is back again and hoping they’re here to stay. For the past ten years the Bison Dance Team has been an on again, off again sport. The school has had trouble finding coaches and funding for the team. The last year Buffalo had a dance team was in 2010. This year they found they’re new coach, Kaitlin White. “I have been teaching dance…
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The Bison Competitive Cheerleading Team competed at the National High School Cheerleading Championship in Orlando, Florida from February 8-12. Near the beginning of the season, the Cheer Team was just shy of getting a bid to Nationals at the Regional competition. The team decided to try their shot at it again at a competition in Iowa. When they went to Iowa, they had their best performance yet. Finishing the meet off with a first place…
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You know it’s sections time when the boys swim and dive team have the best hair cuts in school. Sophomore Tommy Peterson struts his stuff down the hall with his half Adidas head half striped head. Even though some students may give him looks he owns the fact that he is a swimmer. “It’s just something fun to do with the team, ” Sophomore Peterson said. Every year right before sections the team shaves their heads in…
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Drives in the lane, shoots and makes it, foul, and one. The crowd goes wild and the student section holds up four signs: 1 0 0 0. Senior Ethan Freer scored his 1,000th point. “My mom told me I was 13 points away before the game, so I wasn’t positive I’d get a thousand,” Freer said. “When I got 11, the fans said something about it and it crossed my mind other than that I hadn’t thought about it…
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The dream teams’ season came to a crashing halt when they faced the Minnetonka Skippers two nights ago at Parade Ice Garden in Minneapolis. The Bison ended their season with a successful 20-7 record. The girls kept their heads held high because they had nothing to be ashamed of. “As a first year varsity player, watching the older girls and being successful this season has set us up really well for next year,” said Sophomore…
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February second kicked off the 13th annual Pat Sonju Memorial Game in honor of celebrating Pat Sonju, a father, husband, coach, and teacher of Buffalo High School. October 27th, 1999 was the shocking day science teacher and head varsity boys basketball coach, Mr. Sonju had passed from a tumor that ruptured on his adrenal gland, following a knee surgery. Pat has two children. Cameron Sonju, a junior at Buffalo High School,and Avery Sonju, 8th grader…
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Last night, Boy’s Hockey traveled to Cambridge in hope of clinching their first Mississippi 8 conference championship in five years, and they did exactly that. The boy’s were on their game last night, hustling to each and every loose puck with an extra fierceness in every stride. “We went into the game really excited to win,” said Junior Jesse Sullivan. The Bison won 2-0, with junior goalie Tim Harkess getting the ever so elusive shutout.…
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The Girls’ Hockey team is on fire, and their 20-6 record proves it. Section 6AA will test their skill. With four of the top ten teams in the state are within their section (the Bison Ranked #6) the girls scored the #4 seed for their section. The girls faced #5 seeded Wayzata this past Saturday. Sophomore Kirsten Olson scored the first goal of the game within one minute of play. Shortly after, Freshman Allison Roethke…
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“In regards to body strength, boys and girls are built differently,” said Physical Education teacher Nick Guida. “It’s like comparing apples to oranges, not apples to apples.” For a boy to get 11 points on the mile, he must run it in under 5 minutes and 45 seconds. For a girl to get the same score, she has to run it in under 7 minutes and 30 seconds. Is this fair? Of 30 randomly-selected students surveyed 77…
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