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.

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Bison Girls Still Rolling

The Buffalo girls basketball team played this past Friday in Cambridge. It was a very close game but the Bison pulled it out 60-55. This win kept the girls perfect 8-0 conference record in tact. They also improved to 14-2 overall.

With  the perfect record in conference the Bison are at the top of the Mississippi 8. They look to keep that streak going this week with a game in Monticello on Friday the 29th.

The Bison’s next home game is February 1 against STMA. This will be the second meeting between the two conference rivals this season. In their first meeting the Bison won 58-50

Nordic Ski Girls take home the 2nd place, and the Boys take 3rd.

The Buffalo Nordic Ski team headed to St. Johns on Thursday, January 21st 2010. The girls placed second and the boys placed third overall in the 5k classic race.

On the girls Varsity side, the top 5 girls took the places of 5-10. Sophomore Emily Bedker took 5Thoverall with a time of 20:01, and Senior Mandy Samuelson followed shortyafter with a 6Th place time of 20:08. Taking 7Th and 8Th were Senior Megan Ackerman and Junior Nina Jepson. Ackermanfinished with a time of 20:15, and Jepson had a time of 20:19. Freshman Blair Solberg finished in 9thplace with a finishing time of 21:09. Sophomore Angela Eastlund was next to the finish line with a time of 21:34 and a 13Th place. Junior Sandra Ruhr came in quickly after with a 13Th place time of 21:39 respectively.

“It was so awesome seeing all the black uniforms come to the finish in a line one after the other” Said Ackerman. “I just hope we can pull this off for sections, during the race us four (Mandy, Nina, Emily) skied by each other the whole entire time, doing that is going to make us all the faster.”

Leading the way for the boys Varsity was Senior Ryan Strait. He finished 9Th overall with a time of 18:16. He helped carry along Sophomore Andrew Gutknecht(10Th place), with a finishing time of 18:21. The third Bison finisher was Senior Andy Nerison, he placed 17Th with a time of 18:46. Rounding out the Bison top scorers was Sophomore Michael Burgdoff. Burgdoff placed 33rd with a finishing time of 20:43. This was the last meet for the boys due to the budget changes last year; they aren’t able to compete in the official MSHSL section or state meet.

The girls will have a home scrimmage meet on Thursday, January 28th at the Buffalo High School and the following week they will head to sections at Camp Ripely.

-Mandy Samuelson and Cali Durst

BHS Sports Broadcasting

High school sports fill up the week among the days of the high school students. Typically many students gather to the gyms, hockey areas, or even gymnastics gymnasiums to support there fellow classmates and friends, whereas some of us are not. You will always hear the highlights on the sports the following morning but Activities Director Tom Baumann, if you weren’t present at those certain festivity you can’t preview those moments in your head. But what you can do is go to a website and watch the broadcasting of these sports during and after each event. Broadcasting done by Social Studies Teacher William Floersheim. Also students, Junior Nicholas Weeks and Morgan Lubben take an interest and participate in this activity. Lubben frequently does the basketball announcements and Weeks like to participate with Florsheim in the broadcasting.

“For me, the hardest thing about doing the play by play is knowing everyone’s’ number depending on the sport and knowing how to pronounce there names,” said Weeks. ” Basketball is probably the most challenging for me because sometimes I don’t know what I’m saying.”

Basketball, Gymnastics, Boys and Girls Hockey, Swimming and Wrestling are among the variety of sports in which we we broadcast here at BHS. The students are the ones who run the Bison Broadcasting (BBC) , mostly Weeks and Lubben. They get payed $10.00 for each game that they fill for. The company the broadcast for is called Webcast America.

“It gives students who enjoy activities an opportunities and a chance to find ways to be evolved with them,” said Florsheim.

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Bison Gymnastics Update

Buffalo Bison Girls’ Gymnastics team competed against the St. Micheal Knights winning with overall score 12. With Sophomore Paige Habisch competing Varsity all- around and Junior Megan Durst competing combination all around. Sophomore Nadja Vragovic is out with an injury due to a strained hip flexer at the Gustavus Invitational last Saturday during her floor routine with the team had taken 4th in overall.

“Every year when we go to Gustavus somebody always ends up getting hurt. I guess in a way you can call it bad luck, we made it to the third rotation and Vragovic hurt her hip flexer right before vault,” said Durst.

The Bisons’ next meet is the Invitational on January 23rd at 1:00pm. Consisting of eight different teams, competing against eachother.

The Bison have won one meet out of their first three. They still have a few more meets coming up. Bison host the Junior Varsity Invitational on January 23. Till then its practice after practice to keep up the competition.

“The Bison Invite is always a fun meet and I think out team will do well well because everyone is owrking hard atpractice to fix their routines and adding more new skills,” said Junior Alicia Malawicki.

Varisty Mock Trial: Steroids, Death, and a Courtroom

Social Studies Teacher Laurie Raymond leads the ten members of the Buffalo High School Varsity Mock Trial team out of the courtroom. It is January 14, 2010, and they have just beaten Princeton’s Mock Trial team, winning the Conference Tournament.

“Mrs. Raymond is so dedicated to our team,” reveals Junior Sam Kemp, a first year lawyer on the Varsity Defense. “She provides a lot of insight to help us with our material.”

Mock trial is quite literally, a mock trial. Students are lawyers or witnesses for prosecution or defense. Witnesses have direct examinations by the lawyer who represents them, and are crossed by lawyers from the other side. One team has members on both defense and prosecution, who compete against teams opposite them. So, the Buffalo defense goes against another town’s prosecution and vise versa. There are bailiffs who swear in the witnesses, and team members who keep time. The lawyers deliver openings and closings as well. The whole competition is done in front of one to three judges, usually they are actual lawyers, sometimes even judges.

Each year there is a new case that lasts throughout the whole year. Members get a large packet that has information about the case like the evidence, and all the witnesses’ testimonies. Students witnesses have to memorize all the information about the person they are representing, and lawyers have to memorize questions to ask the witnesses and objections.

“I joined mock trial because I want to be a lawyer later in life,” explains Kemp. “It also sounded like a lot of fun.”

The case this year involves a young student athlete who died of a steroid overdose. The plaintiff side of the case is affirming that the school and coach are at fault for his death because they didn’t know he was using, or if they knew, they didn’t stop him. The defense side is saying that it was his own decision to use, and if anyone should have noticed, it should have been his mother.

Mock trial has practice three to four days a week from 2:45 to 4:45 p.m. Their next tournament is January 16th, 2010 in Apple Valley at 7:30 a.m. The kids act serious in the courtroom but love to joke around and have a good time.

“Last year I was on the J.V. team,” says Junior Kat Randall, who is a defense witness on the Varsity team. “And we got to watch the Varsity compete for the first time and we were all really excited. Graham Wyatt was giving his closing, and he paused for dramatic effect, and someone on my team farted really loudly. It was hilarious, everyone was trying so hard not to laugh! For the rest of the year we called her The Big Rip.”

Next year’s 9th graders

The first day of school next year, there will be 425 new freshman coming into Buffalo High school. The first day of high school is a turning point in a lot of kid’s life’s. Teachers and administrators are excited for this day every year. Registration for classes for freshman was last Tuesday.

“Parent nights like registration night, are good first steps for freshman, it’s exciting, a new opportunity for kid’s coming in high school,” said Principal Mark Mischke.

April 30th, 2010, is an impact retreat at the high school for next year’s 9th graders. Boys go in the morning and girls go in the afternoon. There are guest speakers, activities and ends with a tour. It’s supposed to be a good transition into high school for future freshman. Next year will start and it will be a whole new life for a class of students.

Bison Hockey Update – Boys’ and Girls’ teams

Boys Varsity Hockey:

The boys varsity hockey team started out their season with extremely intense competition. Resulting in several consecutive losses for their team. However, recently they have begun to do extremely well in their conference, with wins over M.A.M.L. ( Monticello Annandale Maple Lake) and St. Michael-Albertville, they are 2-0 in conference. Sophomore goalie Blake Schmidt was recently mentioned in the Star Tribune for his success in these games, where he had a shut- out (no goals against him) in each game.

“It’s really nice to have some success after all those losses,” said Schmidt. ” But, we’re excited for the rest of the season.”

The team will be heading North to Roseau this weekend for an out of conference game, against the Roseau Rams.  The teams current record is 4-7-1.

Girls Varsity Hockey:

The girls varsity hockey team recently lost their second conference game against North Wright County, which moved them down in the conference standings. Besides that, they have been very successful lately, with a win over Wayzata which has never happened in the girls program before. Freshman  Katie Rooney was able to score 4 consecutive goals in that game, winning it for the Bison.

“It was really cool to be able to help win that game,” said Rooney. “But, the whole team did really good so it was fun.”

Violating the Norm

Once a term, CIS Psychology classes have an assignment to “violate the social norm.”

While Psychology Teacher Chris Gmach has encouraged students to do other experiments in their social society, this is the first that has been an actual assignment.

The assignment is easy: wear something or portray someone you are not. Some students won’t talk all day long, some are acting like lions or wearing monkey suits. All things most people would consider “weird”.

The only no-no: don’t do something that could get you sent to the principal.

“He told us to yell a common name while waiting in the lunch line, like Brittany or Amanda,” said Senior Tori Magno, who is wearing her Homecoming dress, heels, and an up-do. “I yelled Brittany one day, and so many people looked.”

The point of the “violating the social norm” assignment is to get reactions, and Junior Abby Bollum, who is dressed as a farmer (overalls, flannel shirt, and green baseball cap),  said she is getting plenty.

“I get a lot of eyes when I am walking in the hallway,” said Bollum. “But mostly all of my friends are like ‘what are you wearing??’”

But wouldn’t it be easy to dress weird, but not act the part?

“We have secret observers,” said Magno. “So someone is always watching us. We really have to act the part.”

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