With the girls being on such a long win streak it has raised the girl’s confidence. “I think that everyone has been playing hard and wanting to keep the win streak going. Everyone is playing off the energy of each other and overall just playing great making us win more games.” said junior Lily Hershley.

Almost all of the games that the girls have one have been a blowout. More than half the games have been won by over 10 goals. Girls lacrosse is dominating teams in their conference. “I think the win streak makes us a little more confident knowing we have a good record, but it also motivates us to work harder so we can keep not only the win streak going but to do well the rest of the season,” said sophomore Jayden Perry.

The Bison look to stay hot in their final game of the year, “It has been really fun winning a lot of games and we hope to take that good play into sections” said Sophomore Callie Stumpfl. Unfortunately, the Bison came up short in the final game of the year losing in Hutchinson.

Overall this year girls lacrosse has been underrated by the students at BHS. This year they proved all of the students wrong, so far winning 18 games and only losing five and having a 10 game win streak moving into sections the following week where the bison will likely be a high seed.

“Your heart felt like it would jump out of your chest when the national anthem started,” The first Football game of the 2016 season for the Bison was surrounded with a ton of hype. With the brand new turf stadium, Bison Field West, was built. The day of the first game was nerve racking for some players. A morning walk through on gameday brought confidence in the players for the beautiful afternoon game. About two hours before kickoff, the entire team met back at the school to eat and get their mind right for the first game on Bison Field West. Kick off was at 7:30.

said Junior Alan Hernandez. Friday nights under light is always a dream for some kids. Moving up to playing varsity football was faster and you played against stronger, fast and more talented players. “I remember the first game that I played on varsity it was a lot faster and harder to play. That’s when I started to be scared of getting hurt,” said Hernandez

For some of the players it would be a great game, others not so much. Hernandez started the game with high hopes with not only for this game,  but also for the season. The first game was played against Willmar High School and Hernandez’s season would be cut short after tearing his ACL in the first defensive series that the Bison played.

”Getting hurt during the game is always on my mind until I play, then I play hard and forget about the rest,” said Hernandez.

Hernandez recalled the event.  “I heard a pop,” Hernandez said, “and knew right away something was very wrong. I was in so much pain. The only thing I could think about was the game and not playing with my friends under the lights every Friday night.”   Steve Kipputh, the athletic trainer came out to see what was wrong, all of the Bison surrounded the two of them as he layed on the ground in pain. Hernandez got helped up and slowly walked off the field with the help of his teammates. By the time he reached the sidelines everyone was clapping.  Once that series was over all of the starting defense was surrounding him as he sat on the bench with slight tears in his eyes. “The only thing I was afraid of before every game was getting hurt,” said Hernandez. Hernandez would end up being out for the entire season and he played a big role on the Bison defense.

School spirit has been around for a long time and has helped their schools sports teams bring more energy to the players with roaring chants and rowdy students.
“They are supposed to fun and loud, but ours lack energy and enthusiasm that student sections should have,” said Junior Ryan Kluver.

Recently the student sections at BHS sporting events have been flat. Not many people show up, and when they do, the roaring chants that once were are no longer. Fans this year have seemed inattentive at games that have lacked that shock factor that BHS once had.

Efforts have been made to make the student section loud and exciting again by Athletic Director Nick Guida by creating the B-Team. Guida created the B-Team after the student section began to seem flat. Guida introduces new chants to the Bison superfans trying to create more energy and excitement.

After the B-Team was formed, crowds started to get bigger for the fall sports; but during the winter season, the B-Team seemed to go missing. “I don’t really think there is a B-Team anymore. The crowd varies on who we are playing,” said senior basketball player Tyler Johnson.

Future Bison superfans are already planning on making a change next year. Students are planning on making it exciting again and being more involved with the game. The students are now seeing that the student sections are becoming more and more quiet when they should bring more energy to the players on the field, the court, or the ice in the following years.