On October 16th the Bison kicked off the beginning of the sports winter season. Boys and Girls Basketball, Boy and Girls Hockey, Boys and Girls Nordic Skiing.
Girls Basketball has their first game on December 3rd away against Elk River , and the boys will open their season game on December 4th away against Osseo. Nordic Skiing will start off racing at St. Cloud Tech. Girls Hockey started off with a first game against North Metro and on Tuesday November 17th and next they will play against Edina on November 24th. Boys Hockey will play their first game against Wayzeta on Friday November 27th.
“I’m excited for the season to start, but I can’t get too excited because it is such a long season, I have to save my excitement more towards the end of the season,” said Head Basketball Coach Nicholas Guida.
With the Girls Hockey starting late September and preparing for the season with captains practices on Sunday and Wednesday nights. the girls won their first game against North Metro. Last year’s game didn’t end so well with a loss of 0:4, but this year ended differently, the Bison ended with the win with the score of 3-2. In the first half we were losing 0:2, but the Bison came back in the second half, with 2 goals from Senior Francie Varner and one from Sophomore Prentice Basten.
“We were the underdogs going into this game, because they beat us badly last year, this win definitely set the tone for the rest of the season,” said Basten.
Calli Durst and Mandy Samuelson
