Dorchester Times: Offensive Barrage Lifts Both Longhorn Teams

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Offensive Barrage Lifts Both Longhorn Teams

On Tuesday night, both Dorchester basketball teams produced big numbers and displayed impressive offensive prowess in their last home game of the season. The wins ensured the most successful combined seasons for both DHS teams in the modern era.

The Lady Longhorns breezed by Lincoln Parkview, 55-23. DHS, now 16-3 on the season, is listed as a contender in this week's Lincoln Journal Star girls rankings for Class D1.

With the win, the DHS girls extended their win streak to five games, while moving up to No. 11 in the Nebraska School Activities Association's Class D1 point standings. The Lady Longhorns will wrap up their regular season Friday at Class D2 Hampton, where the Lady Hawks have a 9-10 record.

The girls Subdistrict D1-2 tournament will be Feb 16, 17, and 19 at Fillmore Central High School in Geneva. Along with DHS, other subdistrict member schools include Bruning-Davenport, Exeter-Milligan, McCool Junction and Meridian. Only DHS and Exeter-Milligan (11-8) have winning records of the subdistrict teams. DHS and E-M have split their two contests of the season.

Also on Tuesday night, the DHS boys improved to 12-4 this season, beating Parkview Christian 91-32. The Longhorns led by 20 points at the end of the first, and by 35 points at halftime. Dorchester’s Brandon Bruha led all scorers with 27 points. Other DHS scorers were: Morris 15, Zoubek 11, Kotas 11, Walton 10, Palky 8, Lee 4, Klament 3, Kalkwarf 2.

The DHS boys remain at No. 26 in the NSAA's Class D1 point standings. The Longhorns have two road games remaining on the regular season schedule. This Friday, DHS will take on Class D2 Hampton (17-1), ranked No. 3 by the Journal Star. On Feb. 20, the Longhorns will conclude their regular season at Giltner (12-2), ranked No. 5 in Class D1 by the Journal Star.

The boys Subdistrict D1-2 will be held Feb 23, 24 and 26 at Fillmore Central High School. DHS will need to contend with the likes of Bruning-Davenport (19-2) and McCool Junction (13-5) if the team is to advance.

2 comments:

AnonymousFebruary 11, 2009 at 1:04 PM
The teams have alot to be proud of this year. AWESOME JOB guys and girls! GREAT JOB coaches.

You have all made Dorchester very, very proud. Win out the rest of your games and take state!!
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AnonymousFebruary 11, 2009 at 3:43 PM
Impressive!

I think the coaches for both teams deserve a lot of credit. I can remember years when things didn't go as well and the coaches caught the brunt of the criticism.

Maybe the parents need to all send thank you cards and let them know how much they appreciate all the extra time and effort.
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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."