Dorchester Times: DHS Focusing On Post-Season Performances

Friday, February 15, 2008

DHS Focusing On Post-Season Performances

The Dorchester boys' basketball squad will take on Pawnee City at 7:45 p.m. Tuesday in the first round of the D1-1 subdistrict tourney at Wilber-Clatonia. The Longhorns are 7-11 on the season, while Pawnee City is 9-11. The subdistrict's top seed is Freeman, with a 13-6 record. The final will be Thursday at 7 p.m. The Longhorns will wrap up their regular season tonight at Giltner.

Meanwhile, Dorchester has two contenders still in their division's title hunt after the first round and quarterfinals Thursday. The results of Day 1 of the Nebraska State Wrestling Tournament are as follows: Craig Dennis, Osmond, pinned Jeremy Inderlied, DHS, 4:43; Chuck Parks, DHS, pinned Joshua Watchorn, Ponca, 3:05; Lucas Apfelbeck, DHS, pinned Brent Evans, Anselmo-Merna, 1:16. Dorchester is currently in the top 10 of all team scores in Class D.

** UPDATE: 2/17, 1:30 p.m.**

The Dorchester wrestling team finished with a total of 36 team points, enough to finish No. 15 in Class D out of 60 teams at the state wrestling tourney. DHS' Chuck Park brought home the bronze in the 215 lb. division by defeating Joe Bob Haas of Hemingford, 6-0. Lucas Apfelbeck took sixth place in the 285 lb. bracket. We at the Times are impressed by the showing of this year's Longhorn grapplers.

6 comments:

AnonymousFebruary 17, 2008 at 6:40 PM
Nice job boys. You lead by example, which is the ONLY way to lead. Others only follow.
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AnonymousFebruary 18, 2008 at 6:37 AM
Congats Guys. You have made us all proud!
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AnonymousFebruary 18, 2008 at 4:14 PM
read in the lincoln paper that dorchester finished ahead of both friend and tri-county........ you got to wonder if the crete news will pay any attention to that ..... seems like dorchester sports take a backburner in the crete newspaper to friend, exeter/milligan, meridian and wilber these days ........ I remember in the old days the crete paper had excellent coverage of dorchester sports.......
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AnonymousFebruary 20, 2008 at 6:59 AM
Congratulations to Chuck and Lucas! This just shows what hard work and dedication can do for a person. You'll have some great glory days to look back on when you move on through life.
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AnonymousFebruary 29, 2008 at 2:46 PM
We would just like to say thank you to everyone that has supported us this season. We worked very hard for our accomplishments and were happy with the rewards. We wouldn't have had such a great season without the fans that were there to support us! We would like to give a special thanks to our parents!
From, The Dorchester Wrestling Team
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DPA AdministratorMarch 14, 2008 at 8:04 PM
I'd like to tell the Dorchester Boys and Girls Basketball teams, "Great Job". They both had some great games and we really enjoyed attending. The effort put forth by the boys, in spite of having such a small team was terrific. Congratulations to all.
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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."