Dorchester Times: DHS Girls Get Win No. 17; Boys Give No. 3 Hampton Big Scare

Friday, February 13, 2009

DHS Girls Get Win No. 17; Boys Give No. 3 Hampton Big Scare

The Dorchester boys basketball team proved they can play with the best of them.

Taking on Hampton, the No. 3 team in Class D2 (Lincoln Journal Star) and this year's Crossroads Conference Tourney champs, DHS was undoubtedly the better team in the first half of Thursday's road contest.

According to the York News-Times' story, "Dorchester came out of the gates firing, Brandon Bruha in particular. Before Hampton was able to get on the board the Longhorns had built a 8-0 lead." After the first period, DHS led the 17-1 Hawks by a score of 20-8. The Longhorns went on to take a 28-19 lead into halftime.

But then came the third period, when the 'Horns managed to score only four points while giving up 22. DHS was not able to recover in the fourth period, despite Bruha's game-leading 20 points. Final score: DHS 48, Hampton 60.

Other Longhorn scorers were: Zoubek 6, Bruha 20, Morris 9, Walton 4, Palky 2, Kotas 7. The DHS boys are now 12-5 on the season. Next Friday, Feb. 20, the Longhorns will conclude their regular season at Giltner (12-2), ranked No. 5 in Class D1 by the Journal Star.

Meanwhile, in a rematch of the CRC Tourney consolation game, the Lady Longhorns claimed their 17th win of the season, as they breezed past the Lady Hawks 54-40. However, it wasn't until the second half when DHS took control of the contest.

The game was tied at 22-22 at halftime. By the end of the third period, DHS held a 38-33. That's when DHS turned on its afterburners with back-to-back baskets from Meredith Behrens and Charity Springer to start the fourth, giving Dorchester a 42-33 lead just 45 seconds into the period. To see more on the game, go to the York News-Times by clicking here.

Dorchester was led by Springer, who scored a game-high 21. Karmen Lawver added 12.

DHS, now 17-3 on the season, has concluded its regular season. A contender in this week's Lincoln Journal Star rankings, the DHS girls are carrying a win streak of six games and are No. 11 in the Nebraska School Activities Association's Class D1 point standings. The girls Subdistrict D1-2 tournament will be Feb 16, 17, and 19 at Fillmore Central High School in Geneva.

2 comments:

AnonymousFebruary 13, 2009 at 11:52 AM
Regarding the girls team, 17 wins is an amazing mark by anyone's standards.

Didn't I read that the best Dorchester boys team ever had 19 wins? Not too far away. That's incentive for the sub-districts.
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AnonymousFebruary 13, 2009 at 4:48 PM
Man if the boys could just put together four complete quarters against the best teams they play, they would be deadly. Still ... good job guys. I have seen a huge improvement in skills and attitude.
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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."