By Samantha Lefebvre Sports Editor This season the Buffalo wrestling team brings three state wrestler participants, eight rookies and a new coaching staff to the mat. Buffalo High School Class of 1998 graduate and former Bison wrestler Jason Maurer returns to BHS as this year’s head coach. Maurer has been assistant coaching at various schools …
By Samantha Lefebvre Sports Editor After falling short of a sixth consecutive conference championship and losing by two points in double overtime to Brainerd in the first round of section play, the Buffalo boys’ basketball team is ready to hit the court at full strength this season and regain the accolades teams before them have …
By Samantha Lefebvre Sports Editor Howard Lake remains undefeated in the North Star League Region 12C tournament. The Orphans, seeded No. 2, ousted Maple Plain 5-1 on Friday, August 3 at the Dassel-Cokato ball field and then went on to defeat the No. 1 seed Maple Lake 10-5 on Sunday, August 5. Despite being defeated …
By Samantha Lefebvre Sports Editor For the first time in seven years a Buffalo Girls Hockey player has committed to play for a Division I hockey team. Katie Rooney, a soon to be senior at Buffalo High School, has verbally committed to playing hockey at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, N.Y. on a full-ride …
By Samantha Lefebvre Sports Editor After beating Rogers by a three match margin, 5-2, on April 24, the Buffalo boys’ tennis team had a busy end of the week, competing in four matches in two days. On Thursday, April 26 the Bison traveled to Monticello and defeated the conference rival 4-3, winning four of the …
By Doug Voerding Contributor Buffalo High School publications again captured a “triple crown,” winning all-state gold awards for the 2012 Tatanka yearbook, the 2011-2012 Hoofprint newspaper, and the 2011-2012 hoofprint. net website. This is the second year in a row that all three have earned all-state gold from the Minnesota High School Press Association. Ryan … Continue reading
By Samantha Lefebvre Sports Editor For the second straight week, the Buffalo football team posted zero turnovers for another double digit victory over a Mississippi 8 Conference opponent. The Bison’s high scoring 49-21 victory over Big Lake last Wednesday, October 17 ended the team’s regular season with a conference record of 3-3, tying third with … Continue reading
By Beth Leipholtz Summer Correspondent Last August I made a hasty, impulsive and uninformed decision – I decided to run for Miss Hanover through my town’s royalty program. Most community members probably know us as the girls who simply wear crowns and wave in parades. Before this experience, I was also guilty of that assumption. … Continue reading
By Samantha Lefebvre Sports Editor Numbers were down nearly 30 individuals from the pilot year of the Bison Lacrosse Duathlon. The second annual event held at the Buffalo High School on Saturday, August 4 had a total of 23 participants competing in the three different divisions; last year’s first event had 54. Coordinators and volunteers … Continue reading
By Samantha Lefebvre Sports Editor After battling their way through the first round of the state tournament against Sibley on Saturday, July 21 with a final score of 1-0, the Wright County Girls’ U17-C2 soccer team (The Chaos) went on to win their next two games and take home the state championship title. On Tuesday, … Continue reading
By Samantha Lefebvre Sports Editor Two Wright County North Star League teams dropped out of the Region 12C baseball tournament after two consecutive losses at the Dassel-Cokato field. Cokato, seeded eight, and Delano, seeded seventh, faltered to their higher seed opponents last week in the opening games of the tournament. After defeating the Buffalo Bulldogs … Continue reading
The Buffalo boys’ lacrosse team won its first game of the season by a landslide on Friday, May 4 against Robbinsdale Cooper. The Bison battle back from a two-point deficit in the first quarter to obtain a 13-3 victory. Senior attack Sam Mayhew threw in three goals in the second quarter for the team’s first … Continue reading
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