Dorchester Times: DHS Teams Stumble But Still Look Strong

Saturday, September 20, 2008

DHS Teams Stumble But Still Look Strong

On Friday night, the Longhorns fell short in their bid to enter the Class D-1 football rankings. Playing in their first road contest of the year, the Horns were upended 42-22 by a feisty group of Mustangs from McCool.

DHS is now 1-2 on the young season.

Despite that DHS was handed its second loss -- and although the team is still not at full strength due to injuries -- the Longhorns remain in second place in their Class D-1 district, trailing top-seated Meridian (2-1) by less than a point. The district rankings are based on strength of opponent and margin of victory or loss.

Next week's homecoming contest will feature the 2-1 Pawnee City Indians, ranked fourth in the district standings and trailing DHS by about three points.

On Thursday evening, the Lady Longhorns proved they can compete in Class C-2, losing a nail biter to next door rival Friend in five sets. Despite losing the first set 25-15, the Horns roared back to sweep the next two sets 25-21 and 25-15 against a loaded Friend team with a deep bench. Friend won the last two sets 25-13 and 15-7.

The Lady Horns, now 3-2, remain in Class D-1's top 15 teams by point standing, according to the Nebraska School Activities Association (NSAA). Victories at today's Shickley tournament could propel the Orange and Black into the top 10. (UPDATE 9/20, 8 p.m.: Dorchester defeated Bruning-Davenport 25-20, 25-23 in round one of the Shickley Invitational, but fell to Silver Lake in two sets, 25-20 and 25-23. In the third place match, the Longhorns were defeated by Shickley 25-19, 16-25, 25-15.)

3 comments:

AnonymousSeptember 23, 2008 at 9:51 PM
I just talked to my son and he told me that the football coaches have told the kids not to become involved in homecoming activities, as this would be a distraction to the football game on Friday.

is this what we want. I think the kids becoming involved in activiites during the week builds school spirit.

Let the kids be active in all activities and the win on Friday will fall in place.

Go LOnghorns

Have a good day
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AnonymousSeptember 24, 2008 at 9:42 PM
the coaches didnt say that. they told the team not to get distracted with homecoming. they dont care if the players get involved just remember, football is priority.
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AnonymousSeptember 24, 2008 at 10:54 PM
To the comment above. I think you may have taken what the football coaches said a little out of context and once again, twisted the words of what was actually said.

The football coaches told the players not to worry all week about what they were going to wear for spirit week, skits they were going to do , who the homecoming candidates are and which candidate is going to win.

They did NOT tell them NOT to participate! They are just reminding them that they need to keep focused because this week is NOT going to be easy. Homecoming week can be very distracting and they do not want the athletes to lose sight of what they have been working hard for. They want them to go out Friday night and show the Dorchester Community what they can do and make the community proud.

Go Horns!
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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."