Dorchester Times: SPORTS ROUNDUP: DHS Sending Four Wrestlers To State

Sunday, February 15, 2009

SPORTS ROUNDUP: DHS Sending Four Wrestlers To State

Four DHS Grapplers Headed To State: Four DHS wrestlers earned the right to go to the state tourney following their performances this weekend at the D1 District competition in Sutton. Dorchester's state qualifiers were: Brandon Schwisow (placed third place at districts in the 125 lb. class); Adam Kahle (placed second in 145 lb. class); Jordan Inderlied (placed third in 152 lb. class); and Russel Barak (placed third in 189 class). DHS finished the district meet in seventh place in team scoring out of 18 squads. DHS was second only to High Plains among Crossroads Conference teams. Our hats off to all the DHS wrestlers on an outstanding regular season.

Lady Longhorns Get Bye In First Night Of Subdistricts: The girls basketball subdistrict pairings have been announced and, due to their 17-3 regular season record, DHS will get a bye in the first round of the D1-2 subdistrict tourney at Fillmore Central in Geneva. The Lady 'Horns will play Tuesday at 6 p.m., taking on the winner of Monday's Meridian-McCool Junction contest. The subdistrict final will be held at 7 p.m. Thursday.

DHS' Past State Wresting Champs: Dorchester has had its share of state wrestling champions, although all came in a single decade. In 1981, the Longhorns' Mike Williams became the first DHS wrestler to win a state championship, capturing the gold medal in the 185 lb. class in Class C. Five years later, in 1986, DHS' Don Bruha took the 185 lb. gold in Class D. In 1988, Dorchester's Brad Andelt took top honors in the 112 lb. class for Class D. A couple of Times readers tell us DHS has a real chance this year to see a fourth name added to the list.

8 comments:

AnonymousFebruary 16, 2009 at 8:58 AM
East bound and down!!!!!!!!!!!
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AnonymousFebruary 16, 2009 at 1:12 PM
Dorchester is a rising star this year in all the winter sports.

Nice job Longhorns.
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AnonymousFebruary 16, 2009 at 3:56 PM
Its great to see all of the athletics doing so well this winter. I have especially enjoyed going to watch the basketball games. Good luck to the girls basketball team this week and Congratulations to the Wrestlers for making it to State. It will be exciting to see how all teams do at Districts and State. Good Luck!
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AnonymousFebruary 16, 2009 at 11:28 PM
I can't remember so much talent at the school since I roamed the halls of DHS.
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AnonymousFebruary 17, 2009 at 8:52 AM
Like any other towns in America...they go through their cycles of up and down talent...and in surrounding areas
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AnonymousFebruary 17, 2009 at 9:00 AM
Another State wrestling champ was Chad Rut in 1989.
We can be proud of all of our athletes from both the past & present!
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Village DwellerFebruary 17, 2009 at 12:59 PM
'Anonymous':

We apologize to Chad Rut and our readers for the omission.

The NSAA reports only three DHS gold medal winners.

Thank you for the watchful eye.
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AnonymousMarch 2, 2009 at 9:26 AM
Just to clarify Chad Rut was a 2 nd place winner at State talked 2 him personally but he still did a great job at 2 nd
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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."