Dorchester Times: Bruha, Boller Receive All-State Honors

Friday, November 30, 2007

Bruha, Boller Receive All-State Honors

Our congratulations to Dorchester Longhorns' quarterback Brandon Bruha, who has been named to the Lincoln Journal Star's All-State football honorable mention list.

Bruha is listed as the 13th best in passing efficiency in all of Nebraska high school football during the 2007 season. The junior threw 98 completions in 199 attempts, compiling 1,024 passing yards and 10 touchdown tosses.

We also congratulate DHS volleyball standout Wendy Boller. Boller, a junior, was also named to the Journal Star's honorable mention list. No statistics on Boller were available online.

Meanwhile, the DHS basketball season tips off tonight in Exeter as the Longhorns battle the Timberwolves of Exeter-Milligan. The boys team has a slim but reasonably experienced roster headed by Bruha. The Lady Longhorns, under second-year coach Steve Fusco, have a young team with only one senior returning.

** UPDATE: 12/06, 8:30 a.m. **

On Dec. 6, Brandon Bruha was also named to the Associated Press' honorable mention All-State Football Team for Class D-1. Congratulations!

14 comments:

AnonymousNovember 30, 2007 at 3:24 PM
This is a lot better news than what the former Crete basketball player got today. I heard her appeal was denied by the state sports committee. She/her parents must have really had issues with something at Crete to be willing to sacrifice AN ENTIRE SEASON.
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AnonymousNovember 30, 2007 at 5:01 PM
Correction. There is a Senior returning this year on the girl's basketball team, Andrea Hanson. Go Lady Longhorns!!!
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Village DwellerNovember 30, 2007 at 5:20 PM
Thank you for the correction, LH. Your edit has been noted.
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AnonymousNovember 30, 2007 at 5:44 PM
From the Journal Star -----

The NSAA Board of Control voted 6-0 Friday to re-affirm an earlier decision to require standout Lincoln Southeast girls basketball transfer Marissa Kastanek to sit out 90 school days before becoming eligible for varsity competition.
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AnonymousDecember 1, 2007 at 10:46 AM
I think someone should have read down the list a little farther under RECIEVING,MORRIS,Dorchester 32 recieption,385 yards 6 touch down,rated #10. we need to be proud of all our kids.
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AnonymousDecember 1, 2007 at 2:51 PM
Congrats to the Dorchester athletes -

As far as Marissa getting cheated out of her Jr. year -- If you know the Kastanek's, you can bet they had all the info in line before they made the decision to move to LSE... NSAA just decided to flex their muscles to make a sacrifical lamb out of Marissa since her name is well known. I hope a lawsuit follows this decision. Only complaint is that the NSAA needs to make sure they enforce this policy to all of the non-public schools...for example, Falls City Sacred Heart and the other athletic powerhouses in Nebraska high school sports.
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Village DwellerDecember 1, 2007 at 3:05 PM
Our thanks to "Sam" for catching another remarkable ranking of another outstanding DHS football player.

We regret not catching that the first time around.

We are impressed by the "Orange & Black Pass Attack" -- one of the highlights of the 2007 season on the gridiron.
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AnonymousDecember 5, 2007 at 8:40 AM
How about the other players that received awards?
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Village DwellerDecember 5, 2007 at 9:48 AM
What about them?

Feel free to share them with us.
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AnonymousDecember 5, 2007 at 12:37 PM
Jared Jensen First team all district Defense
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Village DwellerDecember 5, 2007 at 12:52 PM
Thank you. In the future, we would be glad to post news of all DHS students winning state or district honors.

Send information to us at dorchester.times@gmail.com
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AnonymousDecember 10, 2007 at 2:15 PM
I think we should all be proud of our Dorchester Athletes. I would like to add that Boller was the only nomination for All-State. I am proud of her but there probably would be more names on the all state list from Dorchester if more people would have been nominated.
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AnonymousDecember 13, 2007 at 7:33 PM
Anonymous:
Coaches nominate the athletes that have contributed significantly to the team. Recognition is given to those who have earned it - it's not given because an individual is a "senior" or because everyone else was recognized. The significance of these awards would be diminished if an entire team is nominiated. This isn't grade school where everyone gets a participation ribbon.

Coaches provide individual statistics for these awards - The coach is probably savvy enough to know the statistics of some of the others wouldn't have made the grade anyway.

Sounds like sour grapes. Maybe you need to get your daughter to do some work in the off season.
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AnonymousDecember 16, 2007 at 8:46 PM
Chuck Parks 1 st team all District Defense
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Dorchester: A Good Little Family Town

Dorchester, Nebraska (est. population 630) is located in northern Saline county. Close in proximity to Interstate 80, Dorchester is only 25 minutes from the state capital of Lincoln (est. population 250,000) and about 55 minutes from Omaha (metro population 725,000).

Dorchester's median resident age is 37 years. In 2005, Dorchester had a median family income of approximately $35,600. The median house value was about $63,000. About 95 percent of Dorchester residents commute to work via Interstate and highways.

The village has a quality public school, which received a $4.1 million expansion and modernization in 2008; it offers a small classrooms and individualized attention. Total enrollment of grades K-12 is around 230-250 students.

Ancestries of the Dorchester area are primarily German (42.4%), Czech (24.9%), Irish (12.5%), English (5.4%), and Dutch (4.9%).

Dorchester Historical Facts

* On July 4, 1871, the railroad reached Dorchester.
* Incorporated in 1881, Dorchester's population grew from 200 to 500 by 1882.
* In 1882, Dorchester had 90 buildings, 35 of which were businesses or public facilities. Brick buildings lined both sides of Washington Avenue for two blocks.
* Dorchester's longest-running newspaper was The Dorchester Star, which was published until the late 1940s.
* By 1889, Dorchester's population is said to have reached 800, while the town housed an opera house, a two-story brick schoolhouse with a bell tower, and four churches.
* By the 1910s, Dorchester had electricity, a water tower and a fire department.
* Dorchester's main arteries, Highways 6 and 33, were graveled in the 1940s.
* Dorchester's first irrigation well was drilled on Chris Weber's farm and rural electrification was finished following WWII.

A Village with History

Dorchester is one of the "alphabet towns" on the Burlington & Missouri River Railroad line built west from Lincoln. The town site was selected for its pleasant location in the northern part of Saline County, about eight miles west of Crete. This situation is an attractive one, being on the level prairie land, midway between the West Blue River and Turkey Creek. The first named stream is three miles north, and the latter about the same distance south from the town. Dorchester was platted in 1870 and incorporated in 1881. The name "Dorchester" came from either for a suburb of Boston by that name or a town in England. No one is sure. Two of the very first settlers were James Seely and Edward McIntyre, who both made Dorchester their permanent home.

Dorchester: In The Beginning

Here is a look at Dorchester around 1890, less than a decade after its official incorporation, as documented by Andreas' History of the State of Nebraska:
* POPULATION: "About 300, and is made up of a substantial and progressive class of citizens, who are moral and industrious. ... The town grew but very little until the year 1879, for the reason that Pleasant Hill, on Turkey Creek, a short distance south, was the county seat and naturally drew a trade for quite a large scope of country."
* BUSINESS: "The business and professional interests of the town are represented by three general merchandise stores, two drug, one grocery, one furniture, two hardware, and two millinery stores, one bank, two restaurants, two hotels, three livery stables, a post office, one newspaper office, two elevators, two lumber yards, two coal yards, two blacksmith shops, two lawyers and four physicians."
* SCHOOL: "The schoolhouse is a good one. The schoolhouse was built in 1872, since which time the public schools have been continually kept up. The present schoolhouse is 24' x 40' in size, two stories high. The school is graded and consists of three departments. The house is found too small, and arrangements will soon be made to increase its size."
* CHURCHES: "There are three substantial churches."
* HOMES: "The residence portion of the village is made up of neat houses of different styles of architecture, but none of them very large."
* NEWSPAPER: "The Dorchester Star, which was established August 21, 1881, by H. C. Bittenbender, who edited it until January 19, 1882, when he sold it to Ryerson & Bullock, the present proprietors. The Star is a bright weekly paper, five-column quarto, in size, and is Republican in politics."