Sports

The Buffalo Nordic Ski team headed to St. Johns on Thursday, January 21st 2010. The girls placed second and the boys placed third overall in the 5k classic race. On the girls Varsity side, the top 5 girls took the places of 5-10. Sophomore Emily Bedker took 5Thoverall with a time of 20:01, and Senior Mandy Samuelson followed shortyafter with a 6Th place time of 20:08. Taking 7Th and 8Th were Senior Megan Ackerman and Junior…

Buffalo Bison Girls’ Gymnastics team competed against the St. Micheal Knights winning with overall score 12. With Sophomore Paige Habisch competing Varsity all- around and Junior Megan Durst competing combination all around. Sophomore Nadja Vragovic is out with an injury due to a strained hip flexer at the Gustavus Invitational last Saturday during her floor routine with the team had taken 4th in overall. “Every year when we go to Gustavus somebody always ends up…

On Monday, January 18, Fox Sports Net (FSN) will not be coming to broadcast the Buffalo boy’s and girl’s varsity hockey  games against hometown rival Roger Royals boys‘ and girls‘ varsity teams. FSN Canceled all Prep hockey games being broadcasted on Fsn for the rest of the year, except for hockey day in Minnesota and swans cup.  In a interview with Duluth news tribune.com, Mike Dimond said. “It’s totally financially related from a business standpoint,” said Dimond, FsSN’s senior vice president and general manger, said today.…

The Buffalo Girls’ Basketball team has kept it rolling this week with two big Conference wins. Their most recent victory was on Friday, January 8, at Becker. This was the girls second road game of the week but they came out on top 59-51. The game before that was on Tuesday at Rogers. The girls pulled out a eight-point victory over them, 51-43. This week improved the girl’s record to 10-2 overall and 5-0 in…

The varsity girls basketball games had two close game to close out this past week. Saturday afternoon they played Moorhead at home. It was a close game but Moorhead came out on top 57-55. This was the girls first loss of the season. “If we would have knocked down a few more free throws or play a little better defense toward the end of the game we could’ve pulled it out.” Said head coach Scot…

The bison on saturday lost to the 5th ranked Cambridge Bluejackets. The bison lost by 18 points with a score of 141.275 to 123.475.  In every event the bison got sweeped from the top three. The best finish all event was Nadja Vragovic  Floor routine scoring a 8.5 and finishing 4th in the floor routine event. The bison will take on St. Cloud Tech on Saturday trying to improve their 0 and 3 record. and…

The Buffalo Nordic Ski team has had hardly enough time on the snow since the snow falls late into the season. Despite the lack of snow the team went and competed in St. Cloud Apollo’s man made snow course against 5 other teams. The meet was a relay, with four people on each team: two were classic skiing, and two were skate skiing. The varsity boys and girls both placed second and the junior-varsity girls…

The Buffalo Gymnastics team spent last week gearing up for the take on of Cambridge Isanti: the team took a mental approach by each athlete setting their own measurable goals for tonight’s meet. The dual meet is held on December 17Th 2009, and on the following Saturday the team will head to St. Cloud Tech to compete in the 8 team invitational. Last year Buffalo lost to Cambridge and they didn’t compete at St. Cloud Tech last year.…

The Bison on saturday played # 3 ranked team in State Moorehead. From the drop of the puck to the final horn the Bison were out scored 10-1. The Bison were out shot 25-56. The lose dropped the Bision’s record to one and four. After coming off the 7-2 win over Big Lake/ Becker, where the Bision out shot Big Lake/Becker 56-16. Big Lake/Becker scored both their goals off 5 on 3 power plays. “I…

The girls basketball season opened their regular season play this last week with games on Saturday and Thursday. The Mississippi8 and the Central Lakes conference were doing a tournament on Saturday against each other. So the coaches in each conference ranked their teams. The teams with equal ranks played each other. The Bison and Alexandria were both ranked number one by the coaches in their conferences and they played each other at Rogers high school.…