Sports

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…

The girl’s softball team played Monticello Friday night. They beat Monticello 15 to 5 in the bottom of the 5th. In the 1st inning the Bison had an error and that brought in 3 runs for Monticello. In the bottom of the 3rd Emily Varner hit a double bringing in Kasey and Kendra Wycoff bringing the score 3 to 2 with Monticello leading. In the top of the 4th, Monticello brought in a run making…

The Buffalo Bison Boys Lacrosse team lost to MontiQuois Wednesday May 5, with a  final score of 11-2 The Bison came out strong playing neck in neck with MontiQuois and only down by one after the first Quarter. It was the start of the second when MontuQuois’ offense was to much for the defense.  MontuQuois scored four and were beating the Bison 6-1. In the third quarter MontiQuois added three more goals while the Bison only scored one making…

The Boys on the Buffalo Bison varsity golf team will be the first to tell you that they haven’t exactly been playing up to their expectations to start the 2011 season. However, with the sun shining over head last Thursday, May 5, the boys finally feel happy about their game. “We finally put it all together” said freshman Hunter Bruhn. “We’ve been streaky all year long, but on Thursday we played the way were capable…

Senior Jerome Begin put an end to his college search on May 3rd. “I chose NDSU for track because I really like the location and it has both my interests in a good track program and careers i’m looking to study, such as engineering and chemistry. It helped that it was the largest amount of scholarship money and closest to home.” Over 50 colleges sent him letters, 42 of them were D1 schools which  included…

On Wednesday, May 4th, the Buffalo CSz Team put on a show for the school. It began at 7 PM and concluded about an hour or so later. The show consisted of improvisational acting as 2 teams of 4 (made up entirely of Buffalo school students) competed against each other in a series of Improv games, such as Forward/Reverse and 4 Rooms. The show was in the PAC. The entire show was free. Donations and bribes were accepted,…