Dorchester Times: DHS Takes First At Shickley

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

DHS Takes First At Shickley

Congratulations go out to the DHS Lady Longhorns, who rode into the Shickley Triangular and came away with a first place finish on Tuesday.

DHS defeated McCool Junction 20-25, 25-14, 25-17 in the first contest. Then in a face-off with hometown Shickley, Dorchester defeated SHS in two straight -- 25-20, 31-29 -- to take the first place trophy.

The Lady Longhorns, now 10-9 on the season, will be in action again tomorrow (Oct. 16) when they take on Class D-2's No. 2 Clay Center (18-0) at home in a 7 p.m. match-up. (UPDATE: 10/16, 11 p.m. -- In one of the Lady Longhorn's best performances yet of the 2008 season, undefeated Clay Center nipped DHS Thursday evening in five hard-fought sets, 25-15, 21-25, 21-25, 26-24, 15-8. The Longhorns must now quickly get ready for the CRC Tournament at York on Saturday.)

14 comments:

AnonymousOctober 15, 2008 at 9:12 AM
The Lady Longhorns looked pretty good last night. Karmen Lawver had her "jack-hammer" on fire and a few opponents felt her fire! The underclasswomen stepped up and performed well, also. I finally think the girls are coming together and will be a threat to Clay Center tomorrow night. Good Luck ladies!!!
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AnonymousOctober 15, 2008 at 9:46 AM
Longhorns will make state this year. I just have a feeling.
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AnonymousOctober 15, 2008 at 4:01 PM
Maybe this will make the Crete News since it was in Shickley?!? The only time Dorchester gets mentioned anymore in that paper is when we play Exeter, Friend (both which have a paper) or Meridian.
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AnonymousOctober 15, 2008 at 9:47 PM
Horns will beat Clay Center in 5 matches.
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AnonymousOctober 16, 2008 at 5:07 PM
Go, girls, go!!!!!
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AnonymousOctober 16, 2008 at 8:25 PM
In the conference with Clay Center. It is going to be a hard game to win and your district is a hard district.
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AnonymousOctober 16, 2008 at 8:31 PM
Meridian in the sub district is 14-3 and very well coached. The other teams are not very good.
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AnonymousOctober 16, 2008 at 9:48 PM
Regarding the comment at 8:25 pm, that's wrong as recycled toilet paper. Clay Center is Class D-2. They can't be in the same district as DHS.
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AnonymousOctober 16, 2008 at 10:29 PM
To the comment made at 9:48, I didn't say Clay Center was in your district, said in my conference. Meridian is in your sub-district. Reading carefully is important to get the facts right. Former DHS alumni here, and know vball real well. Just stating the facts.
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AnonymousOctober 16, 2008 at 11:34 PM
So the girls looked pretty good tonight. They played Clay Center in 5 sets. The 4th set was a little rough, DHS was up by about 8 and lost the set. I think in the 5th set, they were still thinking about the 4th set loss and you could just see they were tired and down. All in all I think the girls looked good and probably played the best I've seen them play all season, although, they did play well against Shickley also. Good luck vs. McCool on Saturday at CRC!
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AnonymousOctober 17, 2008 at 11:05 AM
Clay Center was not undefeated. They lost to Exeter Milligan on Tuesday night. Exeter Milligan beat Dorchester a week ago on Thursday. The girls did play well last night. They need to continue to improve if they want to make it out of a tough district.
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Village DwellerOctober 17, 2008 at 1:15 PM
'Anonymous':

Thank you for the correction.

We derived our information from the Nebraska School Activities Association page, which apparently had not yet been updated as of early Wednesday morning.
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AnonymousOctober 19, 2008 at 4:49 PM
In regard to "parent said..." comment on October 15, perhaps you need to ask the paper manager why it hasn't been in. BJ, the guy who has been covering all of our schools, has been doing so from a wheelchair and/or crutches all this fall season and I am certain he is shurly trying as hard as he can to get things in, but he also needs the cooperation of the guys who run the paper. He's told me before that some stories and photos make it and some don't and he doesn't know the reason why. Keep fighting, Longhorns!
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AnonymousOctober 19, 2008 at 9:05 PM
BJ is a great reporter! I wish he operated his own Saline County newspaper.
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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."