Dorchester Times: No. 8 DHS Girls Corral Mustangs; No. 17 Boys Fall By Five

Friday, January 23, 2009

No. 8 DHS Girls Corral Mustangs; No. 17 Boys Fall By Five

DHS fans who traveled to McCool Junction Friday night saw both Longhorn basketball teams play well, representing their school and community proudly. When the dust settled, the DHS girls had garnered their tenth win of the season, while the boys lost a heart breaker.

The Lady Longhorns took out some frustration on McCool after Tuesday's loss to Giltner. In a balanced scoring attack and solid game plan by Dorchester coaches, DHS more than doubled the score on McCool, 54-26.

Before tonight's contest, DHS -- now 10-2 on the season -- was No. 8 in the Nebraska School Activities Association (NSAA) point standings. DHS trailed both Giltner and Deshler, the only two teams to defeat DHS this year.

The boys' match-up pitted the NSAA's No. 17 DHS against No. 15 McCool.

The Longhorns took an early commanding lead, leading McCool 23-17 after the first period. But McCool stymied the Longhorns in the second period, holding DHS to only two points and taking a 34-25 lead at the half. DHS could not recover, despite making the contest close. Final score was 59-54.

Scoring for DHS were: Zoubek 17, Bruha 18, Morris 7, Walton 2, Kotas 10. The Longhorns are now 8-3 on the season.

Both Dorchester basketball teams now head into the final stretch of the season, as the Crossroads Conference tournament in York begins tomorrow, Jan. 24.

The top-seeded Lady 'Horns won't play until this Monday, Jan. 26, at 3 p.m. at the York City Auditorium, where they will battle the winner of the Rising City-Shickley contest. Should DHS win, they would next play Thursday at 3 p.m.

The No. 4 seeded DHS boys will start CRC action Tuesday, Jan. 27, at 8:15 p.m., when they'll play fifth seeded Shickley. If DHS wins, they would next play Thursday at 4:15 p.m., most likely against No. 1 seeded Hampton.

For the York News-Times' tournament predictions, click here.

6 comments:

AnonymousJanuary 25, 2009 at 4:00 PM
That was some of the worst officiating that I have ever seen. When a player can blatantly shove another down in midcourt, another kicks one in the back of the knee after he was walking to the sidelines and nothing gets called something needs to be done about it. Also when you stop the dribble and play excellent defense and almost get the five second call, the opposing player decides to elbow you in the face and the ref gives you the penalty something is definitely wrong. The McCool boys are just downright a dirty team after watching the game. I congratulate the longhorns for keeping their dignity and not stooping to McCool's level. You deserve the win the way you played. Keep it up.
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AnonymousJanuary 25, 2009 at 10:36 PM
You have got to be kidding.

Step up and take the loss.

Wa Wa Wa. No wonder kids act like do.
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AnonymousJanuary 26, 2009 at 10:26 AM
It must stink to be as negative as you are, Anonymous. I'll bet you got pummeled one too many times on the playground and now you're just a bitter old man.
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AnonymousJanuary 26, 2009 at 9:35 PM
First of all bob, i aint a man.

this is why the kids act like they do, the minute things get tough or we dont succeed, we blame it on someone else.

Basketball games have been going on for many years, and if i had a dollar for every time someone thought a ref had a bad call, i would be as rich as you. (or so you say).

Just admit that maybe we werent the best team.......is that possible?
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AnonymousJanuary 27, 2009 at 2:00 PM
Bob would school anonymous on the basketball court! :)
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AnonymousJanuary 28, 2009 at 5:28 PM
For all of you that are talking back at me then you weren't at the same game as I was. If you were there you would understand. I'm not saying every game is like that but this was a bad one.
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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."