Dorchester Times: Horns Get First Football Win, First Volleyball Loss

Friday, September 12, 2008

Horns Get First Football Win, First Volleyball Loss

The Dorchester Longhorns earned their first win of the young football season on Friday night in an 8-6 victory over the Sterling Jets.

The Horns, now 1-1 on the year following last week's loss to Shelby, will travel to McCool Junction next Friday for a 7 p.m. contest against the Mustangs. (*UPDATE 9/16, 2 p.m.: The Lincoln Journal-Star has named the Longhorns as contenders in Class D-1 after knocking Sterling out of the Class D-2 top 10. Our congratulations to the men of DHS.)

On the volleyball court, the Lady Longhorns came away with a split decision Thursday at the Hampton Triangular. The Horns soundly defeated the Hawks of Hampton in two straight sets, 25-17, 25-17. However, top-10 ranked Giltner handed DHS its first loss of the season, beating the Longhorns in straight sets, 25-22, 25-15. The Hornets of Giltner went onto win the triangular after crushing Hampton 25-16, 25-13.

The Lady Longhorns will look to bounce back next week, on Sept. 18, in a home contest against next door rival Friend.

10 comments:

AnonymousSeptember 13, 2008 at 11:27 AM
it was a safety, wasnt it?
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AnonymousSeptember 14, 2008 at 11:21 PM
why wasnt the score in the paper saturday morning?

the Lincoln Journal better do a better job. Seems like they should be able to get our score in

go horns
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AnonymousSeptember 15, 2008 at 7:52 AM
in case anyone cares, the sterling jets were #8 in D2
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AnonymousSeptember 15, 2008 at 3:43 PM
Great job to the boys and girls. The boys did well considering the weather! That was a great win and great job to some of the under classmen who really stepped up and played well! Girls are off to a great start! Can't wait to go watch them!
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AnonymousSeptember 15, 2008 at 4:03 PM
Are there different issues of the Lincoln Journal-Star? We get our delivered early mornings, rural Dorchester. Page 5D, left hand column "High school football scores" lists Dorchester's 8-6 win over Sterling...? Go horns!
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AnonymousSeptember 15, 2008 at 8:54 PM
It was in the paper, but it was listed under D-2.
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AnonymousSeptember 16, 2008 at 10:33 AM
Congratulations to both the boys and girls! The girls are off to a great start and I can't wait to go watch the. The boys did well considering the weather Friday. That was a good win! There were some underclassmen that really had a good game. Keep up the hard work!
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AnonymousSeptember 16, 2008 at 6:22 PM
The Lady Horns will win in 3 straight sets tomorrow and the football team will win 28-21 at McCool.

Go Horns Go!
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AnonymousSeptember 17, 2008 at 5:02 PM
I think the football team has a lot more work to do before they can be contenders they have only played to games and one was a d-2 school thats a little crazy.
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AnonymousSeptember 18, 2008 at 1:21 PM
Yes they do have to improve but also they have played 2 rated teams the first 2 games of the year and they beat Sterling and not everyone is healthy yet.. I think the best is yet to come from the talented group of longhorns
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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."