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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 Buffalo Boys’ basketball team hosted Zimmerman, the #9 team in AAA, on Thursday. The Varsity lost 57-62, making their record 14-7 Although Zimmerman is no longer in the Mississippi 8 Conference, Thursday’s game was still an important one. Zimmerman is ranked #9 in the state for AAA, and is a very fundamentally sound team. They are at the top of the Granite Ridge Conference and now have a record of 17-4. The Bison were…
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The Buffalo Boys Swimming and Diving team finished up their season last week with two home meets. On Tuesday, the boys won the meet vs. St. Cloud Apollo, the first of two meets. Freshman Brian Pettit broke the 26 second mark in the 50 yard freestyle with a time of 25.9 seconds. In diving, Senior Spencer Chenoweth took Second with a personal best score of 188.55. Ending the meet with the 400 freestyle relay, Buffalo’s…
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As the gymnastics season comes to an end, the seniors get ready for the future and look back on all the fun and hard times they had. For Taylor Haider, overcoming bars was the hardest. A few years ago, she broke her arm trying a new skill and has been scared of trying a routine since then. During the last home meet on Feb 2, she finally conquered her fears. Paige Habich said she will…
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The Varsity Boys’ Hockey team travelled to Rogers on Thursday to face off against the Royals for the second time this season looking to get redemption after a 5-1 loss earlier in the season. The Bison were able to play a solid First Period, with goals coming from Junior Cale Ehresmann and Senior Jack Becker, but conceded 2 goals as well. In the Second, the Bison were handed 12 minutes of penalties in which lead…
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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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Buffalo’s Cross Country ski team headed up to Mount Itasca on Monday January 16 for a meet. “ We had our last meet up at Mount Itasca, Their were a lot of teams up their but I think Buffalo placed fairly well,” said Freshman Jacob Jungwirth.“Buffalo doesn’t have that big of a cross country team compared to most other teams so taking that in to consideration I think we as a team did well.” Buffalo’s…
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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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With winter in our midst the water is frozen over and the ice skaters have now come out. Thanks to the amount of lakes and ponds here in Minnesota this is an ideal spot for any pond hockey lovers. Playing pond hockey has many up and down sides. “It is fun and good exercise during the winter said Junior Ben Leipholtz. “ I wish I could play hockey on a league but it is to…
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