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The Buffalo Bison Girls’ Basketball Team had a huge win in the section finals over arch rival St. Michael-Albertville Friday, March 11 at St. John’s University. The win gives the Bison the section 8AAAA championship, and advances them to the state basketball tournament for the second time in the last three years. Buffalo got off to a slow start, and found themselves trailing 19-6 mid way through the first half, before rallying back and only trailing…

Girls’ basketball beat St. Cloud Tech 74 to 59 in their first section game, last Saturday at Halenbeck Hall. The girls will be playing in the section finals game versus STMA on Friday, March 11th at St. John’s University at 8:00 pm. If the girls win this last section game they will be headed to the state tournament. Kendra Wycoff #12 of the bison had 17 points last Saturday section game leading the team, #32…

On Monday March, 7th, the some of the strongest kids from 5 Mississippi 8 Conference schools gathered including the Buffalo Bison, St. Michael Knights, Rogers Royals, Monticello Magic and the Princeton Tigers. Overall there was 172 Competitors at the competition. The Buffalo Bison had a group of 32 athletes go to Rogers that included age groups from Freshman to Seniors. Among the 32 were Senior Shawn Worth, Junior Dan Butler and also Junior Katie Kemp. “I was kind…

The Buffalo boys basketball team smashed the Elk River Elks on Tuesday, March 8 in the first round of section 8 AAAA play. Buffalo came out scorching hot to start the game, led by sophomore Ethan Freer, who had 11 points in the first six minutes, and led the Bison with 21 points in the first half alone, giving the Bison a 41-23 lead going into half time. “In recent games Ethan has been unstoppable…

Last weekend, March 3-5, the Buffalo’s Boy’s Swim & Dive state athletes participated in the 2011 AA State meet; the meet was held at the University of Minnesota Aquatic center in Minneapolis. There are 8 different sections with 7 teams in each one. The top 2 swimmers of each race, except the top 4 in diving, come to the meet and race for the top spots. The scoring is just like sections, the top 16…

  The boys’ basketball host elk river tonight, they played the elks the first game of the season and lost 79-80 in overtime. After a tough 1 point loss to Cooper on Friday the boys’ hope to come back fighting tough to keep their post season hopes alive. The elks are 7-19 and the bison are 20-7 coming into tonight’s game. Elks have had a tough year playing in a tough conference with Andover, Anoka,…

The Buffalo boys basketball team has dominated the conference for years, Tuesday they’ll be looking for their 6th straight conference title in big lake. Stma is one win away from tying buffalo for conference, and fighting for the top spot in section play.  Buffalo senior Andy Ortmann leading the team with 14.1 ppg, and Stma senior Joe Carpenter with 18. These two captains have been leading there team all year and it’ll be an interesting match-up if…

Weight lifting competition begins Monday March 7th  at 5:00 pm it will be hosted at Rogers High School, weigh-ins will begin at 4:15 pm. It will be open to all males and females 9-12 grade. Buffalo has been doing this sporting event for 11 years now. The first weight lifting competition started in 2001 and was the Pony Power Lift and was hosted at Stillwater High School. Buffalo now is in the Mississippi 8 conference which…

Buffalo Girls’ Basketball hosted Hutchinson Wednesday night in what they called a friendly scrimmage. Hastings emailed Coach Sorenson wondering if they could set up a scrimmage to get ready for sections and Buffalo was more then willing to. Buffalo is the first seed for their section in class 4A and Hutchinson is also the first seed for their section but in 3A. The scrimmage went three quarters, twenty minutes each. Afterwards they ended with some pizza where both teams…

The Bison Boys’ Basketball Team fought hard against Big Lake, but it wasn’t enough. Big Lake beat Buffalo 63-58 in over time. The Bison earned at least a share of the Mississippi 8 Conference Championships for the fifth season in a row. If St. Michael loses their game against Rogers tomorrow, the Bison will have sole possession of first place in the Mississippi 8. If the Knights win, they will share the Championship. Buffalo led the…