Dorchester Times: DHS Boys Look To Post Best Season Performance In 20 Years; Girls Get Win No. 15

Saturday, February 7, 2009

DHS Boys Look To Post Best Season Performance In 20 Years; Girls Get Win No. 15

The Dorchester boys basketball team is in position to finish the 2008-09 campaign with the school's most successful boys basketball season in at least 20 years.

On Friday, the Longhorn boys earned their tenth win of the year, beating Clay Center 55-49. DHS led at halftime 29-21 and never looked back, scoring 17 in the final period. Dorchester's scorers were: Zoubek 11, Bruha 14, Lee 1, Morris 10, Walton 10, Palky 4, Kotas 5.

The 1988-89 DHS team, which played in Class C2, finished 14-5, according to an e-mail from a reader who notified us of this noteworthy event. No DHS boys team has bettered that winning percentage since. The 1986-87 Longhorn boys team is the winningest team is school history at 19-2, according to the reader, and was regarded by some sports writers as the best team in Class C2 that year.

Friday's win puts this year's DHS boys at 10-4. With three games remaining in the regular season, the Longhorns are currently No. 26 in the Nebraska School Activities Association's Class D1 point standings, which is comprised of more than 6o teams from across the state.

Meanwhile, the DHS girls extended their win streak to four games, beating Clay Center 55-41. The Lady Longhorns trailed 29-19 at the half, but an inspired team performance and coaches' game plan led DHS to 24 points in the third period. Dorchester's defense held Clay Center to only three points in the third period and twelve total points in the second half.

Karmen Lawver lead the way for DHS with 16 points. Other scorers for Dorchester were: Boller 15, A. Havlat 6, Spanyers 2, Pracheil 12, Springer 4.

With Friday's win, the Lady Longhorns improve to an astounding 15-3 on the season. They move up to No. 12 on the NSAA's Class D1 point standings.

Both Longhorn teams will take to the hardwood this Tuesday, Feb. 10, to do battle with Parkview Christian in the last home game of the season.

1 comment:

AnonymousFebruary 8, 2009 at 9:16 AM
IT all goes back to quality of competition.

Some years we get catch teams on the down slide.

Longhorns better be ready for sub districts, because thats when the level of competition rises.

Parkview Christian wont even be a challange, just a game to pad the record.
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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."