Friday, January 23, 2009

No. 8 DHS Girls Corral Mustangs; No. 17 Boys Fall By Five

DHS fans who traveled to McCool Junction Friday night saw both Longhorn basketball teams play well, representing their school and community proudly. When the dust settled, the DHS girls had garnered their tenth win of the season, while the boys lost a heart breaker.

The Lady Longhorns took out some frustration on McCool after Tuesday's loss to Giltner. In a balanced scoring attack and solid game plan by Dorchester coaches, DHS more than doubled the score on McCool, 54-26.

Before tonight's contest, DHS -- now 10-2 on the season -- was No. 8 in the Nebraska School Activities Association (NSAA) point standings. DHS trailed both Giltner and Deshler, the only two teams to defeat DHS this year.

The boys' match-up pitted the NSAA's No. 17 DHS against No. 15 McCool.

The Longhorns took an early commanding lead, leading McCool 23-17 after the first period. But McCool stymied the Longhorns in the second period, holding DHS to only two points and taking a 34-25 lead at the half. DHS could not recover, despite making the contest close. Final score was 59-54.

Scoring for DHS were: Zoubek 17, Bruha 18, Morris 7, Walton 2, Kotas 10. The Longhorns are now 8-3 on the season.

Both Dorchester basketball teams now head into the final stretch of the season, as the Crossroads Conference tournament in York begins tomorrow, Jan. 24.

The top-seeded Lady 'Horns won't play until this Monday, Jan. 26, at 3 p.m. at the York City Auditorium, where they will battle the winner of the Rising City-Shickley contest. Should DHS win, they would next play Thursday at 3 p.m.

The No. 4 seeded DHS boys will start CRC action Tuesday, Jan. 27, at 8:15 p.m., when they'll play fifth seeded Shickley. If DHS wins, they would next play Thursday at 4:15 p.m., most likely against No. 1 seeded Hampton.

For the York News-Times' tournament predictions, click here.

6 comments:

  1. That was some of the worst officiating that I have ever seen. When a player can blatantly shove another down in midcourt, another kicks one in the back of the knee after he was walking to the sidelines and nothing gets called something needs to be done about it. Also when you stop the dribble and play excellent defense and almost get the five second call, the opposing player decides to elbow you in the face and the ref gives you the penalty something is definitely wrong. The McCool boys are just downright a dirty team after watching the game. I congratulate the longhorns for keeping their dignity and not stooping to McCool's level. You deserve the win the way you played. Keep it up.

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  2. You have got to be kidding.

    Step up and take the loss.

    Wa Wa Wa. No wonder kids act like do.

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  3. It must stink to be as negative as you are, Anonymous. I'll bet you got pummeled one too many times on the playground and now you're just a bitter old man.

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  4. First of all bob, i aint a man.

    this is why the kids act like they do, the minute things get tough or we dont succeed, we blame it on someone else.

    Basketball games have been going on for many years, and if i had a dollar for every time someone thought a ref had a bad call, i would be as rich as you. (or so you say).

    Just admit that maybe we werent the best team.......is that possible?

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  5. Bob would school anonymous on the basketball court! :)

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  6. For all of you that are talking back at me then you weren't at the same game as I was. If you were there you would understand. I'm not saying every game is like that but this was a bad one.

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