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A Guest Speaker attended this morning’s Bison Breakfast to give a Special Message. The Guest speaker was Activities Director Tom Bauman’s father, Al Bauman. He was asked to attend to the last Bison Breakfast of the year to make sure students got his message before the year was over. “When I was young and watching a basketball game, I would coach the game and play the game while watching it,”  said Bauman. “ I now…

The Bison Girl’s Basketball team beat Minneapolis South 48-70 last night in the first meeting between the teams since 1991. The last two time Buffalo has played Minneapolis South was in 1990 and 1991. Buffalo lost both games with scores of 32-58 and 46-53. Head Coach Scot Sorenson was very pleased with the win and hopes the season continues to keep going this way. ” Minneapolis has had a lot of success the last 5…

The Boys’ Hockey team lost their home opener versus Brainered 2-6 on Thursday night. The evening started off with enthusiastic player introductions sparking energy through all the cheering fans in the stands. Right off the bat during the first period, Brainerd struck first, but shortly after, Freshman Gunner Goodmanson tied up the game when the puck bounced off his skate into Brainereds’ goal, assisted by Senior Max Willard. Unfortunately from then on, Brainerd got another four…

The Bison Girls’ Swim and Dive team heads to the Section Meet at St. Cloud Tech this weekend. Coach Rachel Busch is very pumped for the girls and can’t wait to see what the day will bring. “Well the girls have been working really hard,” said Busch. “Now they are resting and their times are going to drop, which is going to make for a great and exciting meet.” With a record of 7-2-0, Senior…

The Buffalo girls swim/dive team faced the fourth ranked Wayzata Trojans for their last meet of the regular season on October 25, 2011. The meet ended in a loss for the Bison, with Wayzata sweeping the meet. The ending score was 103 for Wayzata and 81 for Buffalo. Wayzata won seven of the 12 events, and also took second in seven events. Buffalo took first in four events, and second in three events. The highlights…

The Bison Volleyball team won the first round of sections against New Prague with scores of 25-14, 24-26,23-25,25-14, and 15-13 last night. After winning the first game, the team dropped the next two, putting them one loss away from elimination. The team rallied after that, taking the next two games and advancing to the second round. “ We really went in with a bang,” said Senior Jamie High. “The first game we started out with…

Last night, boys Cross Country runners shaved their heads in preparation for their section meet in Hutchinson at 4:00 this afternoon. Fourteen teams will be competing tonight, Senior runner  Dan Pettit has assumed that Buffalo will take second. Four out of the seven boys runners decided to shave their heads for this meet and some didn’t have a lot of choice, like Freshman Frank Graham. “Dan picked me up and said that I would be…

The Varisty Football team’s season ended with a 28-34 loss to St. Could Tech in the opening round of the Section tournamet  Tuesday night. “Everyone was really pumped for the game,” said Junior Dan Hanson,”We had a couple bad plays and missed a few tackles, but overall it was still a pretty exciting game.” The team’s record for the year was 2-9. They entered their final game as the sevent of eight seeds in the tournament.

The Varsity Girls’ Soccer team lost their first Section game to Moorehead 1-0 at Cummings field on Thursday, October 13. Even without home field advantage, Moorehead got ahead early and the Bison were unable to recover. Bison were the favored team coming into the game with the third seed in the standings, while Moorhead was seated sixth out of eight teams. Playing in a section game is more nerve racking than regular games and mistakes…

“I noticed a lot of freshmen showing up to the first meeting,” said Science Teacher Rachel Busch. “People have said that there have been a lot more attending this year than in the past.” Every other Monday at 7:00, a student organized group called FCA [Fellowship of Christian Athletes] meets. The location of the meetings varies from members’ houses to local churches. They discuss religious views and will occasionally have guest speakers. For fun, they…