Dorchester Times: Bruha, Boller and Lawver Take Basketball Honors

Sunday, March 22, 2009

Bruha, Boller and Lawver Take Basketball Honors

DHS senior Brandon Bruha has been named to the Lincoln Journal Star's Class D1 all-state second team for the 2008-09 basketball season. By averaging 19.2 points a game, along with 10.3 rebounds a contest, Bruha helped lead the Longhorns to a 12-7 season. (CORRECTION 3/23, 5: 30 p.m. -- As noted by DHS Head Coach Scott Leisy, Brandon Bruha was also selected to the Class D1 all-state second team by the Omaha World-Herald.)

Meanwhile, in all-state girls basketball honors, DHS senior Wendy Boller and junior Karmen Lawver were named to both the Omaha World-Herald and the Journal Star's honorable mention rolls. The duo was a key factor in the Lady Longhorns 18-4 season in 2008-09 -- a campaign in which DHS found itself ranked for most of the season by both major state newspapers.

We tip our orange and black hats to these fine DHS athletes and school ambassadors.

11 comments:

AnonymousMarch 23, 2009 at 11:54 AM
Nice job once again, Longhorns.

Great job to the students and Mr. Pohl for the work on the alumni tournaments. Excellent event that will be talked about for months and years to come.
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AnonymousMarch 23, 2009 at 12:08 PM
Go Huskers and Horns!!!!!!!!!!!
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AnonymousMarch 23, 2009 at 1:15 PM
Let me send my kudos to the Community Foundation for a nice event at the community hall.

The chili and burgers were great and it was so nice to see everyone under one roof talking and having a good time. I am looking forward to the next supper in April.
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AnonymousMarch 23, 2009 at 4:53 PM
Any news on who won the alumni tournament? Or how the games played out? Or is that story in the making?
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Village DwellerMarch 23, 2009 at 5:30 PM
'Anonymous':

If we receive information on the tourney results, we will publish it.
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AnonymousMarch 23, 2009 at 11:23 PM
Congratulations to Bruha and the success of the boys season. He's definitely a stud no doubt about that. However, the Times keeps "chalking it up" as the best team in two decades which is simply not true. The '01 squad was 15-7 and runner up champs in the CRC tourney and the '99 team posted a better record also. I've seen that it's been pointed out on numerous occasions but the Dweller won't stop posting it.
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Village DwellerMarch 24, 2009 at 12:20 PM
'Anonymous':

Now we all know.

Thank you for correcting the record.
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AnonymousMarch 24, 2009 at 6:08 PM
the dweller is wrong???

imagine that
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AnonymousMarch 25, 2009 at 9:00 AM
Hey Anonymous .... you should start your own blog you genius. Oh wait, you did. Ha. It went over really well since i think about ten people in total saw it. Go back to school and learn how to write your own name first before you cast stones from your glass house.
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AnonymousMarch 25, 2009 at 3:36 PM
dweller sucks! their leaving out the best team this school has seen in the past 50 years when I played.

you need to recognize tallent when you see it!!
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AnonymousMarch 26, 2009 at 12:04 AM
How about the track teams??

HOw are they doing??

WE were awesome in the 80s
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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."