Dorchester Times: DHS Basketball Teams Prepare For Rival Bulldogs

Monday, January 13, 2014

DHS Basketball Teams Prepare For Rival Bulldogs

Dorchester's boys and girls basketball ball teams are busy preparing for Tuesday's match-up with next door rival Friend.

The Longhorns will host the Bulldogs on Tuesday, Jan. 14, with the girls tipping off at 6:15 p.m. and the boys at 8 p.m. There will also be a JV girls contest beginning at 4:30 p.m.

The Longhorn boys basketball team has continued to improve over the last couple of weeks, as the squad now sports a 3-5 record. The DHS boys fell to Sterling 60-41 on Dec. 30 and to Lincoln's College View 40-36 on Tuesday. But DHS defeated St. Edward 69-47 on Jan. 4.

Longhorn boys Coach Adrian Allen told the Friend Sentinel -- which provides good coverage of the DHS team -- his team has been playing well at times, but still needs to improve, especially on defense. Riley Zahourek continues to be a top scorer for DHS, which is also getting very solid play from standouts Corey Bird, Kevin Donohoe and Derek Pohl.

Meanwhile, the Friend Lady Bulldogs will have a tougher hurdle at Dorchester than they may have been counting on a month ago. The surging Lady Longhorns are now 3-6, as the young DHS team has won two consecutive games, beating St. Edward 37-30 on Jan. 4 and pounding College View 41-13 this week.

We expect a large crowd for this home contest next Tuesday.

13 comments:

AnonymousJanuary 9, 2014 at 5:24 PM
Strength of schedule.
Won't even be close

Go bulldogs
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FRIEND SUPPORTERJanuary 9, 2014 at 5:45 PM
Friend will rock and shock the DORKs from DORChester. See ya!!!!!!
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AnonymousJanuary 9, 2014 at 6:45 PM
Dorchester boys by 5.
Friend girls by 50
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AnonymousJanuary 9, 2014 at 6:48 PM
BULLDOGS WILL ROLL THE HORNLESS LONGHORNS >>>> THEN ALL YOUR KIDS WILL TRANSFER TO FHS >>>>>>> HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
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Rooster LoverJanuary 9, 2014 at 10:50 PM
Beat Friend! I root for Exeter-Milligan and anyone who plays Friend.
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AnonymousJanuary 10, 2014 at 2:39 PM
Let's go DHS!
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AnonymousJanuary 13, 2014 at 3:14 PM
Friend has always been Friend which that has never changed. At least we know Dorchester is nothing like Friend people. At least we can say the Dorchester is not stuck on themselves like half the town of Friend is.
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Dorchester AlumJanuary 13, 2014 at 11:51 PM
This is sad, really sad Dorchester Times. Either tighten up your screening of the comments, or not allow them without a name. Is this truly good for the community? I don't think so.
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Village DwellerJanuary 14, 2014 at 11:20 AM
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The Times will not publish comments that attack individuals on a personal level.

You can write them and submit them, but they will not be printed.

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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."