Sports

The Buffalo varsity track team won their ‘Last Chance Meet’ Tuesday May 24 at the Buffalo Middle School Stadium. With this win, the Bison finish out the regular season with a 10-1 record, and their 11th top-2 finish. “We’ve had a good year this year so far,” said head coach Scott Palmer. “Hopefully we can continue to improve and get better during sections [next week].” The Bison pulled off wins in several races, including the boys’ 4-by-400…

The Buffalo Bison Boys’ golf team finished out their conference season strongly on Tuesday, May 24. The Boys’ finished their season at Riverwood National Golf Course, shooting a solid team score of 308 and taking third at the meet. Roger’s placed first with a team score of 291 and St. Michael-Albertville took second with a score of 304. With Buffalo’s third place finish, they clinched second overall this year in the Mississippi 8 Conference, behind…

The Bison beat the Becker Bulldogs on Tuesday night  11-0 win. The game was over after the 5th inning because Buffalo 10-runned them; the first time this has happened this season. “We were all on fire and pumped up before the game,” said Sophomore Brennan Gilyard. Senior Brett Renshaw started the game off in the first inning by hitting a batter in to score. Following him, sophomore Jason Senger hit a double brining the score 4-0…

There were very high hopes for the Bison Girls’ Track Team going into the 2011 Conference track meet considering they fell short by 1 point in last year’s meet of Monticello who has always has had a very strong girls track program. “I had very high hope for the girls coming into the meet, I wish they could have finished better overall team wise but I’m very proud of the girls, ” said head Track and Field coach Scott…

The Boys’ Varsity Track Team took first place in the Mississippi 8 Conference Track meet for the 8th year in a row.  A couple conference records were broken, and performances were at their best.  The weather was sunny and warm, in comparison to the rain and cold the track team has dealt with earlier in the season.  It was a perfect day for track. The 4×800 relay team of Sophomore Joe O’Flanagen, Sophomore Michael Swearingen,…

The Buffalo Bison Boys lacrosse team hosted Holy Family Tuesday, May 17  losing a close game 7-6. Buffalo and Holy Family were both creating offense and playing strong defense making the score after the first quarter tied up at one a piece. It was in the second where Holy Family took a lead and never looked back. Holy Family would score two goals where the Bison could only put one in the back of the…

The Bison baseball team beat Conference rival Big Lake 15-14 in a thrilling 10-inning game to claim their first ever Mississippi 8 Conference Championship . “It is an unbelievable feeling,” said Senior Cody Elletson who had 3 RBIs in the game. Buffalo was down 7-0 in the 2nd inning, but managed to pull through to tie the game 7-7 at the end of the 7th, resulting in extra innings. Both teams were neck-to-neck and in…

With no rain in the forecast for only a handful of times this season, the Buffalo Bison boy’s and girl’s golf team competed in a double header at St. Cloud. Country Club on Thursday, May 19. The Girls teed off first at 9 a.m and almost brought home the first place plaque. Buffalo ended up finishing in a tie for second shooting a team score of 338, three strokes behind first place Detroit Lakes (335).…

The boys’ baseball team fought hard at Cambridge-Isanti Tuesday. The Bison won the game 10-6. “If we would have lost the game, we would have lost our season goal: Conference champs,” said Senior Cody Elletson. The Bison were losing 4-0 in the 7th inning but managed to score 4 runs to tie the game. Senior Brian Holthaus hit in 2 runners and sophomore Brennan Gilyard hit in the last 2 runs. The game went into the 8th…

The Bison had a remarkable come back against conference team Monticello Magic on Tuesday night’s game. It was the bottom of the 7th inning and the Bison were down 2-6 with 2 outs. Junior J.D. O’Donnell stepped up to the plate and hit in 2 runners making the score 4-6. Then, sophomore Brennan Gilyard hit in 2 more runners tying the score 6-6.  The Bison then went into the 8th inning and Senior Brian Holthaus hit the 7th…