Robert LaPlante
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After 20.5 years, my Dad joined Mom in Heaven today. Thanks for everything you did for me, Dad. I am forever grateful. I will miss you dearly. 💔
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Not televising (live stream not the same) MSHSL girls hockey state quarterfinal games on regular TV is wrong. They do QF for the boys. Give the 16 girls teams their turn in the spotlight.
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Here’s video of
@StPaulCentral
senior Robert Brown’s first-career varsity basket in last night’s game. Trenton Radloff and Kai Penney of Buffalo helped assist in his milestone. He would later score another three and finish w/6 points.
@BHSBison
@BHS_BoysHoops
@MSHSLjohn
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It is with great sadness to report that longtime Buffalo Bison sports fan Gary Wagner was killed last night in head on collision while driving home from Buffalo & STMA boys hockey game. This is pic of Wagner at Roseau with girls. Please keep his family in your prayers.
#RIPGary
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BREAKING: St. Michael-Albertville & Buffalo have been assigned to the Lake Conference effective the 2019-20 school year.
#mshsl
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Maple Grove’s
@ChaytonFischer
has to be front runner for All-Hockey Hair Team.
@MGCrimsonHockey
@MGActivities
@MapleGroveSrHS
@MinnHockey
#TheTourney22
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This is what makes
@paigebueckers1
so special. Half hour after the game at Buffalo and she is still taking photos and signing autographs, including some from the opposing players.
@HopkinsRoyals
@MSHSLjohn
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Honorary first pitch prior to tonight's
@Twins
vs
#Pirates
game at Target Field thrown by Emily Hansen (
@emilyhans25
), 2018 Ms. Softball winner from Buffalo High School & freshman this season for the Gophers.
@GopherSoftball
@BHSBison
@mnmrmsbase
@buffalosoftball
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The Allina Health Clinic tonight in Buffalo is lit up in purple, in support of those that were affected in last week’s tragic shootings.
#BuffaloStrong
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In case people are wondering why the Delano student section is wearing purple, it's because of the loss of a former student in the HWY 12 car accident.
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BREAKING: Buffalo-Hanover-Montrose School Board approved the hiring of Nick Guida as the new Activities Director at Buffalo High School (effective Aug. 13, 2021).
Guida was Head Coach for 2006-07 Class 4A Boys Basketball state champions.
@MSHSLjohn
@ronhaggstrom
@BHSBison
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They didn’t win a game this year, but the Buffalo/Monticello/STMA Coyotes Adapted Floor Hockey team always played hard, listened to coaches, and most importantly, had fun playing the game.
@MSHSLjohn
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Buffalo pulls off the huge upset. Final score: Buffalo 17, STMA 14.
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One thing I noticed last night was the class
@StmaFB
showed after a 56-0 loss. A program used to winning taking big loss with heads high.
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Man, you hate to see the refs make an impact in a game of this magnitude and I think they did on this call.
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Honored to receive two awards at tonight’s
@MN_Newspapers
Better Newspaper Contest. First place for Sports Reporting & second place for Sports Photo.
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Riley Habisch (
@RileyHabisch
) immediately thanked his parents:
@jhabisch2000
and
@SuzetteHabisch
for all their support over his wrestling career.
@NDSUwrestling
is getting a good one.
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Drove 13 hours yesterday from Minnesota to Oklahoma to pick up our new puppy! Slept in the back of my car at a rest stop casino in Chocktaw, OK, but the trip was so worth it! We named him Oakley for Oklahoma.
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Riley Habisch did it! State champ at 170 pounds of Class AAA. He defeats Dressel 3-0. Huge celly and runs to stands to give dad and mom hugs.
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Well, it was fun covering these guys the past 4-6 years. Been nothing but first class, no matter the results each Friday. Good luck at Iowa State.
@boumanaidan8
@BoumanTodd
@GoBisonFootball
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Here is historic 3-point bucket that put
@matt5willie
in record books as
@BHS_BoysHoops
all-time scoring leader with 1,406 career points.
@BHSBison
@JaredNHR
@RyanJamesMN
@BreakdownUSA
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This year's Homecoming King & Queen at Buffalo High School is Kyle Kauffman & Alana Hartman.
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Eli Tiernan wins it for Buffalo with 2:53 left in OT! Bison and Elk River to play for Section 8AA championship. Tiernan’s 23rd goal of season.
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STMA wins its third state championship, but first in Class AAAA with 71-70 win over defending champs Hopkins. What a game. Tessa Johnson 27 points, 10 rebounds, 7 assists.
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Not my typical deadline day at the office. I haven't even touched my sports pages yet. Prayers to everyone who are affected by today's tragedy.
#BuffaloMNStrong
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Honored to receive two state awards tonight at the Minnesota Newspaper Association banquet.
#mnacon19
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Buffalo Activities Director Tom Bauman (
@BaumanTom
) was named the recipient of the 2019-20 MNIAAA Distinguished Service Award.
This award goes to one deserving AD from each state who will represent their state at national conference in Dec. at Tampa. Congrats, TB.
@BHSBison
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Emily Hansen now hitting bombas for the Gophers.
B4: Anotha one!
@emilyhans25
sends a two-run bomb to the left field fence to put the
#Gophers
up 3-0!
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BREAKING: Buffalo names all-time leading scorer, Josh Ortmann (BHS '07), (SCSU '11) new head boys' basketball coach, replacing Nick Guida.
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Final: Buffalo 82, Moorhead 65. Bison Section 8AAAA champs for first time since 2013-14 season.
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A big shout out to Tony Daniels, who did his last Bison basketball game as PA announcer. He’s been the voice of the BUFFFFALO BISON!! the past 10 years.
@BHS_BoysHoops
@BuffaloGBB
@BHSBison
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Well, here it is...
Buffalo AD Tom Bauman sent me this pic of the new banners hung at Buffalo High School.
@BHSBison
@StmaAd
@edinahornets
@EPS272
@HopkinsRoyals
@TonkaSkippers
@WayzataTrojans
#LakeConference
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My only argument for the people worried about club and AAU seasons is this, the majority of student-athletes that play high school sports are not blessed enough either talent wise or financially to play those type of sports. MSHSL allows more people to participate.
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My 5A rankings would be...
1. Moorhead
2. Andover
3. St. Thomas Academy
4. Chanhassen
5. Mankato West
Based on records, QRF, and post-season results, I would put my Class 6A football rankings as follow:
1. Lakeville South
2. Eden Prairie
3. St. Michael-Albertville
4. Rosemount
5. Blaine
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Aidan Bouman (
@boumanaidan8
) on his way to shatter every passing QB record this season. Bouman is 102 for 154 completions, 1,282 pass yards, 14 TDs. THAT'S IN THREE GAMES!
#mshsl
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Cool gesture started by Alexandria, saying a prayer at center ice, no doubt for the victims from the tragic shootings. 👏
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Layne Kology wins it with behind the back snipe from side of goal. Final in OT: Buffalo 7, Minnetonka 6.
This is first conference title for any Buffalo team since joining the Lake Conference three years ago.
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Some choppy video, but
@PAOnTheMic
with some love for
@welch_treyton
after his first pro catch in preseason vs. Vikings.
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My daughter, a freshman at
@MapleGroveSrHS
, registered tonight to join the
@maplegrovetrack
team. In all honesty, she's not the most athletic girl, but she's never afraid to fail. As a father, I couldn't be more proud of her.
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Based on records, QRF, and post-season results, I would put my Class 6A football rankings as follow:
1. Lakeville South
2. Eden Prairie
3. St. Michael-Albertville
4. Rosemount
5. Blaine
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Like father, like son.
@boumanaidan
pounding the rock like RTR & SCSU fans once saw.
@BoumanTodd
@BHS_BoysHoops
@GOHUSKIESWOOOOO
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Great seeing all three Activity Directors show up. If you haven't been to an adapted sporting event, you're truly missing out. Justin Garaghty was given a penalty for high sticking. He truly felt bad about his infraction, while Coach Pearson and the ADs cheered him up.
@MSHSLjohn
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BOYS HOCKEY FINAL: Buffalo 1, Wayzata 0. Shots were 44-20 for Trojans. Max Varner 44 save shutout his third of season. Max Zook the winning goal. Huge upset over Class AA’a No. 2 ranked team.
@MNHockeyStar
@MinnyHockey
@HockeyDayMN
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Hard to believe, but about 30 seconds prior to this team photo, tears were dripping down each one of their faces. No matter how you cut it, 4th place at state is still a great season.
@buffalosoftball
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Maple Lake has turned into Titletown, USA this season. State championships in Volleyball, Girls True Team Track & Field, Softball, and now Baseball.
@vb_ml
@coachYoungs68
@MLakeBaseball
@ML_IrishAD
@MapleLakeISD881
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The
@FOX9
Town Ball Tour lineup is set for this summer. Here are the dates:
JUNE
7 Freeport vs Avon
14 New Market vs New Prague
21 Gaylord vs Brownton
28
@LitchBlues
vs
@MapleLakeLakers
JULY
5 St. Joseph vs Avon
12 Forest Lake vs Anoka
19 Lonsdale vs St. Benedict
@MinnBaseball
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FINAL: Buffalo 3, STMA 0. Michael Weber tosses a no-hitter in process. Gopher commit Will Anderson suffers loss.
@BHSBison
@BisonHSBaseball
@JimPaulsen
@David_LaVaque
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After years of shooting other people's kids...finally got to shoot my own...and she set a PR (personal record) in the 200 meter dash at Park Center!
@MarisaLaplante
@maplegrovetrack
@MGActivities
@MapleGroveSrHS
@MGActivities
@BHSBison
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In between doing post-game interviews,
@STMAGBB
senior All-American guard Tessa Johnson was signing autographs and taking photos with a number of little ones in the crowd.
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For the first time in program history, Buffalo boys lacrosse lands in the top-10 for state rankings this week.
@BHSBison
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Love how Chanhassen is taking the runner-up medals/trophy with class. Great season and they arguably beat the best team in the state to get to this point.
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Geez, imagine had they actually started the volleyball and football seasons on time when the numbers were not spiked this high...
#Hindsight2020
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Delano junior
@CalvinWishart
among this week's Strib's Prep Athletes of Week for boys hoops.
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Zrust game-winning layup gives Buffalo 62-60 road win. Unbelievable.
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Incoming
@GopherSoftball
freshman
@emilyhans25
will toss out the first pitch prior to Tuesday night's 7:10 p.m. Twins home game vs. Pittsburgh Pirates. Hansen was 2018 Ms. Softball winner for
@buffalosoftball
.
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“I have nothing but respect for Buffalo, their coaching staff, their players and their community. Man their community comes out like nobody else. That’s a special thing.”
- Maple Grove Head Coach Nick Schroeder (
@nickschroeder24
) on facing Buffalo 3 straight years in 8-4A final.
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Moved
@MarisaLaplante
in yesterday! She's already loving her two days/nights at St. Ben's.
@CSBSJU
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I want to congratulate all the senior graduates that have given me at least a few minutes, or a lot of minutes of their personal time to do my job.
Win or lose, never do I get anyone who refuses to talk to me.
Good luck in you future endeavors!
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Heartbroken today as my wife, daughter and I said goodbye to our other family member for the final time. 💔
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Unofficially, Aidan Bouman passed for nearly 580 lass yards, 8 TDs. Jack Munsterteiger had 19 catches for nearly 280 yards.
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I would like to give a shout out to my wife, who has been working her ass off the past week at Hy-Vee. Literally, staff is being pulled from different departments to simply help stock empty shelves. Please, buy what you need, not what you think you need in 2 months.
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Matthew Willert scores 30 points in defeat, but ends his career with 2,005 career points. All time leading scorer in school history. SCSU is getting a good one.
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Here’s the winning bucket with 3.1 seconds left by
@ZachZrust
in Buffalo’s 70-68 home win over Minnetonka.
@BHS_BoysHoops
@BHSBison
@TonkaSkippers
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A first happened to me at work tonight. I was recognized by Buffalo High School senior captain Zoe Hiers as her Staff Appreciation Night representative. I'm not a staff member of BHS, but felt honored to represent Zoe! This was a pic of her at tonight's swim meet.
@BHSBison
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Tonight's Buffalo-Hanover-Montrose Operating Levy Election results passed.
Total YES votes = 4,233
Total NO votes = 3,030
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This year's Buffalo High School Homecoming King and Queen are a pair of football players. King Alan Hernandez & Queen Danika Tweten.
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Props to the
@BHSBison
student section that has came out in huge numbers for each postseason game so far for
@BHS_BoysHoops
. Target Center was full of purple today.
@BHSStudSect18
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Walkoff RBI single by Sarah Hudson scores Katie Carlson. Bison win 2-1. Advance to state a third year in a row.
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The Buffalo-Hanover-Montrose Fire Dept gives the Bison softball team escort out of town as they make their way to Mankato for state tourney.
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Herb Brooks Award for Class A goes to Charlie Voller of MAML.
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Lauren Bredensteiner goal is the clincher for the Crimson, who are state bound. Maple Grove wins game 1-0 over STMA, with shootout ending 4-3 in favor of Crimson. Great Section 8AA final.
@mggirlssoccer
@MGActivities
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This shot provided by Guillotine of STMA's Mitchell McKee hugging his dad after state title win is very touching.
http://t.co/pfHMdiOte2
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What a year for Buffalo WR
@MichealTweten
. He sets single-season school records for receiving with 95 catches, 1,386 yards and 17 TDs. All three currently lead the state.
Previous records were 71-1,302, 16 TDs, set a year ago by Treyton Welch.
@GoBisonFootball
@BHSBison
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MSHSL enrollments for 2023-24, 2024-25 school years.
@TonkaSkippers
largest enrolled school at 3,348.
@STMAHighSchool
13th highest,
@BHSBison
30th. These numbers will affect classifications for sports teams next school year with realignment due this summer.
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Very surprised Aidan Bouman (
@boumanaidan8
) isn't trending on Twitter; 15 TD passes and nearly 1,000 pass yards the past 2 games.
@espn
#wow
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Pretty sure I caught Abby Halluska doing a Dab celebration after one of her four goals.
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Just "another" Lake Conference team heading to state. Celebration shots from tonight's Section 8AAAA championship from Sartell.
@BHS_BoysHoops
@BHSBison
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Buffalo High School has hired Alex Revenig as its new Head Coach for girls tennis. Revenig was a former 3-sport standout in tennis/basketball/track at Monticello High School and former tennis player at the University of North Dakota.
@BHSBison
@UNDwtennis
@MonticelloMagic
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St. Cloud State, Gophers and North Dakota among the schools in the Randklev sweepstakes, after his de-commitment from Arizona State.
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The fact that Jim Erickson (
@SCSU_hockey_pbp
) calls every single Class A and AA game at state and does it at the level he does is simply amazing.
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STMA student section chanting “season’s over” with a minute to play up 63-52 and STMA head coach Kent Hamre immediately puts arms up saying no.
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Senior guard Nate Dahl becomes, according to sources, Buffalo's first ever Mr. Basketball top-10 candidate.
@BHSBison
Congratulations to this year's Top 10 candidates for the 2023 Minnesota Mr. Basketball award!
The Final Five will be announced March 19; the winner will be named following the State Tournaments.
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