Buffalo Bison Wrestling falls against Magic
Visiting conference-rival Monticello beat the varsity wrestling team 64-3.
“The score really doesn’t show how rough we wrestled, ” said Senor Tim Ruter.
The Bison were pinned four times in the match, and forfeit five out of the 14 matches.
A bright spot in the meet was Ruter adding another win under his belt in a 3-2 win over the Magic’s Logan Draack. Ruter remains undefeated with 25 straight wins.
“I’m feeling the pressure to win.” said Rutter, “When I’m expected to win, the pressure is high. If I lose, I guess I would lose all the pressure but I still want to do well.”
Rutter wasn’t the only bright spot. Junior Tanner Robasse had a5-4 win. Also Freshman Mike Simon pulled off 7-3 win.
FSN Hockey Games Canceled
On Monday, January 18, Fox Sports Net (FSN) will not be coming to broadcast the Buffalo boy’s and girl’s varsity hockey games against hometown rival Roger Royals boys‘ and girls‘ varsity teams.
FSN Canceled all Prep hockey games being broadcasted on Fsn for the rest of the year, except for hockey day in Minnesota and swans cup.
In a interview with Duluth news tribune.com, Mike Dimond said.
“It’s totally financially related from a business standpoint,” said Dimond, FsSN’s senior vice president and general manger, said today. “[Ad revenue] wasn’t coming in to the degree that we needed it to. The simplest way to put it is that we’re not a non-profit business, and ultimately I have a responsibility to the bottom line of the company. This time, it just wasn’t making it. The revenues didn’t offset the costs.”
Insteed of high school hockey on monday Fsn will be broadcasting repeats like 6:00p – Best Damn Top 50 Special – Sports TV Blooper 7:00p – World Poker Tour: Season 7 – WPT World Championship VII 8:00p – College Football- Tostitos Fiesta Bowl: Boise State vs. Texas Christian. 
After having a FSN night game for the past three years. Against Duluth East, Cloquet, and last years against Wayzata.
“It sucks”, said Junior Cody Elletson.”Been looking forward to this for a long time. Especially Since it’s against our conference foes.”
“Even if we don’t have FSN there we are still gonna go out and play our game” said Junor Nick Jones.
FSN is also canceling the Bison’s Girls Varsity’s first television appearance in team history.
“We are very disappointed”, said Sophomore Prentice Basten.” We were looking forward to having FSN there, so people can see our team play that wouldn’t normally.”
Bison Gymnastics falls short againist Cambridge
The bison on saturday lost to the 5th ranked Cambridge Bluejackets. The bison lost by 18 points with a score of 141.275 to 123.475. In every event the bison got sweeped from the top three. The best finish all event was Nadja Vragovic Floor routine scoring a 8.5 and finishing 4th in the floor routine event.
The bison will take on St. Cloud Tech on Saturday trying to improve their 0 and 3 record. and get there first win. The bison season won’t get any easy the bison still have to play the becker bull dogs Who the Startribune says “Metro’s deepest team: six gymnasts capable of scoring 9s or better in all four events.”
Bison Tough streak againist Moorehead bounce back
The Bison on saturday played # 3 ranked team in State Moorehead. From the drop of the puck to the final horn the Bison were out scored 10-1. The Bison were out shot 25-56. The lose dropped the Bision’s record to one and four. After coming off the 7-2 win over Big Lake/ Becker, where the Bision out shot Big Lake/Becker 56-16. Big Lake/Becker scored both their goals off 5 on 3 power plays.
“I think we played descent,” said Junior Hunter Vollbrunt, “We just need to keep on working hard on our defence of zone coverage. They passed the puck well and cycled the puck very well on us.”
The Bision go away on Saturday to Hopkins. Hopkins has a one and four record losing to class A power houses (#4) Hermantown 4-1 and (#8) Virginia 6-3. They have also lost to local rials Rogeer 4-3 and US women’s national 3-2. The only win for Hopkins was posted against North St. Paul 5-3.
Hoofprint.net strikes interest in community
The newspaper website is being updated everyday by high school school students for the past two years.
“The Hoofprint has been running for three or four years,” said Hoofprint. net advisor Ryan McCallum. ” It’s been cool for the past two years. The first two years it was basically only a website I made. ”
All the stories are written by high school students that writen by students. They take time to interview and research each story they write.
“I feel pressure to write good stories,” said writer Adrian Jimenez. “I want to make this website creditable and to give us as a school a good rep compared to the other schools.”
The reaction from students have been very positive.
“When I first look at the website it grabbed my attention,” said Junior Courtney Daniels. “I seen a picture of me right away.”
looking to the future
The bison football team is going far into section after last years section final lose to St. Cloud Tech in St. Johns University stadium. The bison will play once again in sections finals on Saturday again in St. Johns university.
The Bison will have to beat the second ranked seed in section 8AAAAA Brainerd Warriors (6-3). They beat the third seeded Cambridge Isanti Bluejackets 38 to 3. The Warriors scored on their first five times they touched the ball ,which included two punt returns.
The Bison only beat The blue jackets 12 to 10 with numerous turnovers. But the Bison were with out one thousand yard rusher Josh Gaughan, he was out with a suspension. He has 16 touchdowns, averages 7.71 yards per carry and 136.9 yard per game.
If the Bison win this game against Brainerd they will play the winner of section 7AAAAA which will either be the the eight and one Blaine Bengals or the nine and one Centennial Cougars. The game will be played at St. Cloud University on the 13th of November at eight pm.
New surfaces for the tennis and track and field
JV boys soccer team blows Robinsdale Cooper out
On Saturday, Robinsdale Cooper JV boys soccer team lost to the Bison eight to zero. After last year’s three to two lost to Robinsdale Cooper the Bison were ready to bounce back.
As the Robinsdale Cooper bus arrived in the Buffalo High school parking lot. The Bison Head Coach Josh Soukup told the team to get ready for the game as the team was messing around, they didn’t want a repeat of last year’s game.
Eric Selcho saves the ball Photo by Nick Weeks
“The team was really relaxed,” said Junior forward Ben Lesch it helps settle down the team and makes our passing much more fluent”
As the teams enter the field and each respected goalie got into their nets, and the ref blew the whistle the Bison boot the ball to the corner and the game began. By the end of the first half the bison dominate Cooper as they went up four to zero by half time. The team didn’t let up in the second half piling up four more goals. To send the Robinsdale Cooper Hawks home losing eight to zero.
“The team was excited to have such a good game, said Sophomore goaltender Eric Selcho. It shows how hard we worked in practice and how it’s paying off.”