Approaching their final few days of practice, the girls’ gymnastics team keep their hopes high and their nerves low for todays section meet. “I’m treating it like its just another meet and trying not to get to nervous.” Said junior Taylor Haider.  Haider is hoping to get close or make it to state in the beam and on the floor.  To make it to state you must place in the top four of the event. The…

Senior Morgan Lubben is the home basketball game announcer for both the boys and girls team. He has been announcing basketball games for the past two years, replacing professional sports announcer Rusty Kath. “I want to be a professonal sports announcer,” said Lubben. “There is nothing better then getting this great opportunity to announce  the basketball games.” Lubben plans to attend college, and major in broadcast journalism, although he has not decided where yet. “Having someone who…

The Buffalo Knowledge Bowl team placed 1st amongst 55 teams Thursday night at St. Cloud Tech High School. It was the team’s seventh 1st place finish in as many meets this season. “Going into the meet, I honestly thought we were going to lose,” said senior Nate Spanier, also team spokesperson. The team entered the meet already at a disadvantage, missing five of their team members, including two of team 1’s four members (seniors Jonathon…

Monday,  February 14th was Valentine’s Day. A day of love, affection, and happiness. But, for a portion of the students at BHS, Monday went by a different name. Single Awareness Day. “It was fun in elementary school when you got candy, but after that it sucks,” said Junior Jonah Menough. Many people find themselves single on Valentine’s day, but some people are completely oblivious to the festivities. “Honestly, I didn’t even know it was Valentine’s…

Throughout last week, Students Stepping Up (SSU) held a “Hugs and Kisses” fundraiser. For $1, students could buy a bag of Hershey’s Kisses to send to anyone in the school on Valentine’s Day. Around 69 bag of chocolate were sold during the week at all lunches. “We made about $70,” said SSU member and senior Brittany Snyder, “But it’s not about the money, we just do it to have fun.” The candy was then sent…

For many juniors, sophomores and especially freshman, next year’s school schedule is the last thing on their minds considering they’re barely even half way through their current school year. However, counselors, who have to get everything planned out and ready for next year, need the students’ decisions on their next year’s classes ASAP. At the begginning of the 2nd semester, the counselors are already having kids register for next year. To some, this may seem early, but, “It is definitely  to the advantage of…

Buffalo Boys’ Hockey takes on Edina at the Buffalo Civic Center at 7:00 P.M. Edina is ranked 6th in class 2A for State rankings with a record of 14 wins 6 losses and 2 ties. Buffalo is unranked and  has a season record of  3 wins 17 losses and 3 ties. The leading scorer for Edina is Steven Fogarty with 35 points and the Edina goalkeeper’ Alex Nelson has a save percenatge of .909. The bison’s leading…

The Buffalo Girls’ hockey team had a dramatic overtime win last Saturday afternoon in the first round of sections against Wayzata to send them into the second round of sections on Wednesday night, where the Bison faced off against the Minnetonka Skippers for the second time this season. On Tuesday, November 23, the two teams played at Pagel Ice Arena in Minnetonka, where the Skippers beat the Bison 5-0, scoring 4 of the goals in…

The girls basketball team conquered another conference game over Princeton, beating them 69-45. The bison are 19-3 overall and 10-1 in conference. The bison had a tough start trailing the tigers 0-9 in the first 4 minutes of the game, but managed to come back ahead before halftime taking the lead of 30-24. Kendra Wycoff, number 12, lead the bison with a total of 13 points. Behind her was Emily Spier, number 50, and Malorie Schmidt, number…

“You, my friend, look absolutely amazing today.” Starting last Thursday, ego-boosting notes such as this one have been mysteriously appearing in the girls bathrooms of BHS. Taped to the mirrors above the sink on notebook paper written in blue glitter-pen and construction paper written in pink marker, these phrases of encouragement have been displayed by an anonymous writer. “It immediately made me smile,” said Junior Stephanie Hansmann. “There was no way you could look at…