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The State-ranked Buffalo Girls’ Basketball team continued cruising Tuesday night at home, crushing the Rogers Royals 60-43. The win improves the Bison to an overall record of 9-1, and moves them into a first place tie with St. Michael-Albertville at the top of the Mississippi 8 conference with a record of 4-0. Senior Kendra Wycoff was 4-5 from the 3 point line, in route to her team leading 16 points. Senior Molly Muntifering added 12…

Buffalo Bison Boy’s Basketball team went on the road on Saturday and beat the St. Cloud Tech Tigers 62-55. The Bison have fell short against the Tigers in the past three seasons, two of which were in the Section final games. The scores from those games were 52-45 and 61-60, which left the Bison with unfinished business. “Guida told us before the game that we had to compete, and we needed heart. We didn’t compete…

The Bison Varsity gymnastics team lost to Big Lake’s gymnastics team Thursday night at Buffalo High school, the Bison Varsity team scored 127 points Big Lake scored 135 points, this is their fourth loss. Senior Alicia Malewicki, Junior Paige Habisch and Freshman Michaela Perz competed in all-around for the Bison, with a total of five people per event, vault, uneven bars, beam, and floor exercise. “We stuck four beam routines and we did really good…

Madlyn Nones mutters to herself during a match, “You can do it! You’ve got this.” Building confidence in a match is done through self pep talks for most players on the tennis team. Giving themselves a little boost of encouragement is what gets them trough a tough match. The players talk to themselves when they have done something really good like score a point or hit the ball really hard. You also hear whispering when…

The girls varsity soccer team took on the Rogers Royalson Tuesday, September 14.  Both teams exhibited enthusiasm and skill; cheering on teammates was heard all over the field.  owever, the Royals’ team proved to be a challenge for the Bison.  Throughout the game, shouts of, “Pressure!” encouraged all players to kick up their skills to a highe level.  Concentration was apparent on all the players’ faces.  Whenever a Bison player began to make progress toward the…

Seniors Josh Gaughan and Buzz Tryggeseth have decided to play Junior League hockey next year. The Junior program is available to athletes who are 20 years old or younger. It is also available to high school students and graduates who want to get better before playing college hockey. Gaughan tried out to play for the Alexandria Blizzards on May 3 and got drafted by them. Getting drafted means they are interested in you, and they…

On Sunday, May 23, the Girls Lacrosse team made it to State Championship game to play Monticello.  The game started out by Buffalo taking the lead 6-5.  After half-time, Monticello pulled out a tie at 6-6.  Unfortunately, Buffalo fell short and lost 16-9. “We played really well,” said Senior Monica Shoberg.  “It was unbelievable.  During Monticello’s season, no team scored more than three goals against them.” Regardless of not winning at State, the Girls Lacrosse…

Thursday, May 20, the Buffalo baseball team hosted Rogers at Bentfield Mills for one of their last season games.  Buffalo won 5 – 3 by the top of the 7th inning. Throughout the game, Senior Aaron Duske pitched a total of 91 pitches only allowing two walks. Five hits were earned for Rogers off of Duske but in return the Bison got nine. “It was a relief because we’ve lost a lot of one-run games…

On Thursday, May 13, the Buffalo Boy’s and Girl’s Varsity Track teams attended a meet in Fargo, North Dakota. The meet was set to take place at the Concordia-Moorhead campus but was moved due to field renovation. Other teams who attended included Brainerd, Alexandria, Moorhead, Bemidji, Monticello, St. Cloud Apollo, Sauk Rapids, and St. Cloud. It was rainy and cold, but the girls managed to place 5th and the boys placed 3rd “It was very…

Story by Francie Varner