Dorchester Times: DHS Boys Season Ends In Geneva

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

DHS Boys Season Ends In Geneva

The Dorchester boys basketball season came to an abrupt end Tuesday night in Geneva as McCool Junction managed to narrowly defeat DHS for the second time this season. When the buzzer sounded at the first-round subdistrict game, the final tally was 58-54. McCool is listed as a contender in this week's Lincoln Journal Star Class D1 rankings.

The heartbreaker marked the last contest for Longhorn seniors Brandon Bruha and Logan Morris. DHS will feature a strong returning lineup next season with 6'8" Alex Walton, Brandon Zoubek, Spencer Kotas, Kyle Palky and Michael Lee leading the way.

Dorchester played one of the toughest schedules in Class D1 this season. Despite their seven losses, the team is still No. 29 in the Nebraska School Activities Association's Class D1 point standings, which is comprised of more than 6o teams from across the state.

The Longhorns (12-7) finish the 2008-09 campaign with the school's most successful boys basketball season in at 20 years. The 1988-89 DHS team, which played in Class C2, finished 14-5, according to an e-mail from a reader. No DHS boys team has bettered that winning percentage since.

The 1986-87 Longhorn boys team is the winningest team is school history at 19-2, according to the reader, and was regarded by some sports writers as the best team in Class C2 that year.

7 comments:

AnonymousFebruary 25, 2009 at 12:46 PM
I'm sad to see the winter sports season come to an end for both basketball teams and the wrestlers. You all gave us a lot to look forward to and a lot to be proud of.

Nice going, ladies and gentlemen.
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AnonymousFebruary 25, 2009 at 5:29 PM
great effort guys!!!
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AnonymousFebruary 25, 2009 at 8:26 PM
was anyone else who was at the game as embarrased as I was??

what do these people think, its a high school basketball game, not the end of the world
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AnonymousFebruary 26, 2009 at 12:36 PM
I agree that the team should have a salty lineup next year. The CRC sheds a little of its talent this year so maybe 2009-10 will bring a less demanding schedule. It's tough playing four consecutive games of top 10 or contending teams.
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AnonymousFebruary 26, 2009 at 6:31 PM
Good job guys on a great season. It can certainly be frustrating to lose in sub-districts, but the underclassmen will be able to learn from it and be better next year.

Village Dweller, weren't there a couple of 14-8 and/or 15-7 seasons about 10 years ago? I could be wrong about that.
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AnonymousFebruary 27, 2009 at 10:14 PM
The 2000-2001 boys team was 15-7.
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AnonymousFebruary 28, 2009 at 11:25 AM
I don't mean to belittle the boys great season this year, but there have been two seasons with a better winning percentage than this years team since 1988-89. The 1998-99 team was 14-8 and the 2000-01 team was 15-7. The 2000-01 team even included a 2nd place finish in the CRC tournament.

Although with a 6'8" player next season, both those records my be surpassed.
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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."