Dorchester Times: SPORTS ROUND-UP: DHS Hoops Off & Running; Kahle Gets Gold

Sunday, December 7, 2008

SPORTS ROUND-UP: DHS Hoops Off & Running; Kahle Gets Gold

DHS Basketball Teams Off To Positive Start: Both boys' and girls' DHS basketball teams lived up to pre-season hype Friday night, capturing big wins in their season-openers. The Lady Longhorns beat a solid No. 13 Exeter-Milligan 49-40, despite leading by only a point at halftime. The Havlat sisters -- Melinda and Amy -- led the Class D-1 No. 11 Longhorns with 11 points a piece. Other scorers included Boller 10, Lawver 8, Springer 8, Spanyers 6, and Wells 4. In boys' action, the Longhorns overpowered Exeter-Milligan as DHS coasted to a 69-57 victory, thanks to balanced scoring from the Orange & Black Attack. Both teams are again in action Tuesday night in home contests against Diller-Odell.

Adam Kahle Takes Gold At Season-Opening Wrestling Meet: DHS' Adam Kahle took first place at Friend's Lil' Dawg Invitational on Saturday. It took Kahle only 1:01 to pin a Wilber grappler in the championship match, as the Longhorn junior sets his sights on a repeat bid to State this February. DHS finished 8th in the team standings out of 11 teams. However, all but two of

the squads (DHS and Bruning-Davenport) were Class C teams.

Bruha Is State's Leading Punter At Season's End: Now that the high school football season is over and the statistics have been tallied, DHS' Brandon Bruha is officially the state of Nebraska's leading punter for the 2008 campaign. Bruha led all Nebraska high school punters, regardless of class size, with a 41 yard-per-punt average in 22 kicks. Bruha also made the list of leaders in tacklers for 2008, landing at No. 19, withe 27 unassisted tackles and 79 assisted. Bruha was also named to the Lincoln Journal-Star's All-State Honorable Mention team for Class D-1. We salute this DHS football standout.

Osceola & Shelby Give New Look To CRC: The Crossroads Conference is getting a makeover in 2009. The York News-Times reports tha beginning next school year, members of the new CRC Conference will include: Dorchester, High Plains (formerly Polk-Hordville), Hampton, Exeter-Milligan, McCool Junction, Osceola, Shelby, Giltner, Meridian, Rising City, Shickley and Clay Center.

14 comments:

AnonymousDecember 7, 2008 at 10:24 PM
I find your articles amusing.

I have read many newspapers and I have never seen a high school ranking out higher than 10th.

Where do you get the 11 and 13th ranked stuff??

Maybe I need to change papers.
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AnonymousDecember 7, 2008 at 10:35 PM
The economy is crashing and you care about sports? ................ the wife and me are stocking the freezer full of beef, buying more ammo and snatching up gold and silver ................ you play games ........... me thinks someone is fiddling while rome burns........................
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Village DwellerDecember 7, 2008 at 11:06 PM
'Anonymous' (12/07, 10:24 p.m.):

The Class D-1 rankings we report are courtesy of the Lincoln Journal-Star.

Every week, following their Top 10 rankings, the LJS runs group of "contenders" for each class.

The contenders are typically listed in the order they would be ranked outside the Top 10. Last week Dorchester was the first team to appear in the "contenders" category.

Dorchester should enter this week's Class D-1 Top 10, thanks to the loss of Mead. When this happens, we hope you won't continue to feel the need to be as cynical as our friend Richard.

Perhaps you can even muster enough courage in your old age to be happy for a group of hard-working high school athletes.

Keep reading. We find you amusing.
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AnonymousDecember 8, 2008 at 9:46 AM
Congrats to the Longhorn athletes!!! Keep up the good work. The kids were fun to watch. It should be a good season for all!!
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AnonymousDecember 8, 2008 at 2:46 PM
smoked 'em. go horns!!!
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AnonymousDecember 8, 2008 at 5:42 PM
Mr. Kahle is a respected young man in our community. His future is going to be bright well beyond his wrestling accolades.
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AnonymousDecember 8, 2008 at 9:33 PM
I am very happy to see our athletes fairing so well. But, there were other medal winners at the Friend meet as well. It would be nice to recognize all medal winners!
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AnonymousDecember 8, 2008 at 9:38 PM
Richard, you ain't cynical ... you just plain crazy!
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AnonymousDecember 9, 2008 at 9:00 AM
anonymous, you should just start your own blog dedicated to your own kids. just a thought.
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AnonymousDecember 9, 2008 at 11:59 AM
the blog should say something about the other wrestlers that placed
not just the gold medal winners
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AnonymousDecember 9, 2008 at 1:26 PM
we're a week into the winter sports season and already the whining parents make me wanna puke>
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AnonymousDecember 9, 2008 at 4:30 PM
To the people upset that the other wrestlers who placed were not mentioned....WHY DON'T YOU MENTION THEM??? Didn't the Village Dweller say that they are not reporters and get most of their information from the paper? You complain, but then you don't mention who the other kids that placed were. If you didn't go the the wrestling meet (And I didn't), how are you suppose to know. If you don't want to put it in your comments, then send the Times an email so they know. I'm sure they would love some pictures if you have them also. Help the Times post more information about westling rather than complaining!!!
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AnonymousDecember 10, 2008 at 8:54 PM
Why don't they mention the other medal winners??? The two other medal winners are Russel Barak and Brandon Schwisow both underclass men that have great things coming for them.
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Village DwellerDecember 11, 2008 at 9:13 AM
'Anonymous' (Dec. 10, 8:54 p.m.):

And now we know. Thanks.

By the way, we are looking for a sports correspondent.

Feel free to keep the reports coming, either in the comment section or by e-mailing us at dorchester.times@gmail.com.
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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."