Sports

Senior Zach Mellon, Track and Field Athlete of the Year, signed a Letter of Intent for the University of Wisconsin, Madison February 4, with the staff lounge full of onlookers. After signing the papers with his mom, Portia, Mellon was all smiles.  Recently, Mellon was on the cover of ESPN Rise magazine and featured in a four-page spread dedicated to his achievements. Including, breaking the Minnesota’s State record for the half mile and also finishing second place at the USATF Junior National meet. “It was…

On Friday, February 6, Bison Boys’ Hockey will play the Roseau Rams at Buffalo Civic Center, at 7:00 p.m. Bison’s record stands at (13-6-0) while Roseau’s stands at (8-7-2). Senior Forward Alec Ackmann said, “Well they’re [Roseau] not quite as good as they usually are, so if we are going to beat them it will be this year. It will still be a big challenge though.” With the Bison’s record being quite similar to Roseau’s…

The girls varsity basketball team is getting ready for their game at Pinceton this Friday, February 6. The varsity game starts at 7:30 and JV starts at 6:00 pm. The team has a record of 8-11 and have a good chance of making it 9-11 this Friday. The team has played Rogers twice this year and both have been close games. The team took the wins with the scores of 59-57 and 44-31. Princeton, on…

                This year’s Varsity Boys Hockey team has been going strong throughout the 2008-2009 season with 13 wins, and only 6 losses. Leading scorer, Zach Blaisdell, is a key player in the team’s success holding 27 pts followed close behind by Alec Ackmann and Josh Gaughan. Hopefully the team will be able to carry on their success to this year’s FSN game held Tuesday, February 10th. Last year the…

Photography and video by Sara Larson. Narration and production by Kaehler Reitz.

With a record of 6 wins and 2 losses, the boy’s swim and dive team heads into a challenging week.             They have meets on Tuesday and Thursday, one away and one home. Then on Friday they play hooky and leave school at 9 A.M. to head up to Hibbing for a dual meet. They will try to get some sleep in Hibbing because the next day they have yet another meet. The Saturday meet…

The Monday, January 26 school board meeting was more popular than most, as parents and students made emotional pleas to the school board to consider NOT eliminating, primarily, the high school activities. Those who spoke during the public comment portion spoke mostly on behalf of the boys swimming and diving team, but also spoke for skiing and speech. They encouraged the board to allow the parents to come up with other funding possibilities before they…

Despite the recent announcement of the possible cut of the Swim and Dive program, the boys swim team is having the best season in its short history.