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…

Buffalo High School’s NHS partnered with The Red Cross blood drive on Friday, March 4. Thanks to the students, teachers, and volunteers BHS contributed 144 pints of blood saving an estimation of 432 lives. NHS members bonded and comforted  student donors by talking a holding their hands as the students gave blood.  The red cross members were very friendly and efficient. Senior Morgan Broten says, “I was feeling great when I went in to donate. It was for a…

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…

Keith Williams came to Buffalo High School Friday as a guest artist for Jon Holtz’s Ceramics classes. Holtz has known Williams for about 13 years. “My dad used to teach at the same university as him and introduced us,” said Holtz Keith is a ceramics teacher at Concordia University in St. Paul. He has been making pottery since 1973. Most of his art work is displayed and created for art galleries. While Williams was at Buffalo,…

Tomorrow, Thursday March 10, at 7:30, all choirs will be performing their “World Music” Choral Concert in the Performing Arts Center. All together there are 6 choirs. Three large groups, and three smaller groups; treble singers, varsity singers, and BHS singers.  At 7:30 choir students will be ready to sing. Freshman choirs will be singing 4 songs, Varisty Choir will be singing four songs, one piece is in Sweden, and concert choir will be singing 4…

  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…

The Buffalo Knowledge Bowl team clinched their sixth consecutive Mississippi 8 Conference championship Tuesday following a 50-point win at Rogers High School. “I try not to get excited after a win,” said senior Nate Spanier. “But knowing we’ve just won the conference six years in a row makes it hard not to be.” The scores of the two meets at Rogers were combined as Buffalo outscored 2nd place Rogers 210-160. “The first thing I did…