Dorchester Times: DHS Boys Win 87-22; Lady 'Horns Nearly Fall

Friday, January 16, 2009

DHS Boys Win 87-22; Lady 'Horns Nearly Fall

One game was a rout; the other was nearly an upset in Class D1.

The DHS boys basketball team on Friday night had no problem handling a young, shorthanded Rising City team. The Longhorns (8-2) simply overpowered the Terriers in an 87-22 victory at DHS. Dorchester led 47-6 at the half, ensuring plenty of quality minutes for every substitute player. Dorchester scorers were: Zoubek 23, Bruha 20, Walton 10, Lee 7, Palky 7, Kotas 7, Kalkwarf 4, Morris 6, Kliment 3.

On a side note, the Lincoln Journal Star this week gave "extra credit" recognition to DHS' big man Alex Walton for his 54 blocked shots in eight games (6.75 per game). Walton added to those totals Friday night.

Before the game, the DHS boys had slipped to No. 17 in the Nebraska School Activities Association point standings for Class D1. Friday's win will likely not move the Longhorns too far in the standings, considering Rising City's 0-9 record.

Class D1's No. 3 Lady Longhorns, on the other hand, had to work for their victory against a 1-8 Rising City squad, squeaking by with a 54-52 victory. DHS was hesitant throughout much of the game and led by only one point at both halftime and the start of the final period.

Rising City was powered primarily by one player, Kovar, who accounted for 33 Terrier points. Still, DHS held off the feisty Terriers to garner their ninth victory of the season. Dorchester scorers were: Wells 10, Boller 4, Havlat 8, Pracheil 11, Springer 7, Lawver 14.

Before the game, the Lady Longhorns had advanced to No. 3 in the NSAA point standings, trailing only Deshler and top-seeded Bancroft-Rosalie.

(CORRECTION: Thanks to numerous readers who corrected this post. Only the Lady Longhors will travel to Giltner Tuesday, Jan. 20 to battle the No. 10 Hornets (8-2), who walloped High Plains by 29 points Friday night. Both DHS teams will travel to McCool Junction on Friday, Jan. 23, where the boys will take on the No. 8 Mustangs (8-2). The Lady Mustangs are 4-7 on the year.)

8 comments:

AnonymousJanuary 17, 2009 at 9:27 AM
I believe only the girls play on Tuesday. The boys are off. Looking at the rest of the ladies' schedule (playing numerous D-2 teams), the ladies will probably need to win their district and not rely on wildcard points as they will continue to drop even with wins from these teams in order to make the state tournament. The girls are looking good - keep it up. It will be great if we could play at state again.
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AnonymousJanuary 17, 2009 at 10:40 AM
isnt it sad that Rising city can not support a competative boys basketball tea. Finishing a game with 4 players has to be a disapointment and embarrasing.

I thought they were bringing kids in from Columbus at one time. Must not have worked.
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AnonymousJanuary 17, 2009 at 8:00 PM
actually only the girls go to giltner on tuesday
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AnonymousJanuary 18, 2009 at 12:33 AM
I'm all for supporting the players but was that music before the boys' game on Friday really necessary. It was terrible!

Go to a Huskers game at Memorial Stadium. The point of music is to fire up the players AND crowd, not to have people covering their ears ... or looking to the skies for the four horsemen! End of Days might be better than that crap that was blaring from the speakers.
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AnonymousJanuary 18, 2009 at 4:28 PM
Congratulations to the Junior Varsity Girls on Saturday. They took second place at the Shelby Tournament. Our Freshmen and Sophomore's made up Dorchester's Team; the team that beat us had 4 Junior's playing. Keep up the hard work girls!
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AnonymousJanuary 18, 2009 at 5:00 PM
looking good? they almost lost to a 1-9 team! i don't think that looks very good on dorchesters half. you are right about not being able to rely on wildcard points to take the girls to state. they need to start over and surprise us by playing like they did at the beginging of the season.
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AnonymousJanuary 19, 2009 at 12:29 PM
big m
you come to watch the game, not listen to the music.
dont worry about what the boys want to listen to before they go out and kick some tail
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AnonymousJanuary 20, 2009 at 6:45 AM
Big M
I believe this is called "pump up" music. If there is nothing wrong with the lyrics and the songs are appropriate, great, play the music. Maybe we are just getting old and the music today is not the music we used to listen to. Sorry Big M, this is the now generation. Just enjoy the game.
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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."