Dorchester Times: Meredith Behrens Named To Shooting Stars All-Staters

Friday, March 27, 2009

Meredith Behrens Named To Shooting Stars All-Staters

The Times has learned that DHS Lady Longhorn Meredith Behrens has been selected for this year's Cornhusker Shooting Stars 15-and-under girls basketball club regional team.

As a member of the Shooting Stars squad, the Dorchester freshman is joining the ranks of some of the state's top up-and-coming basketball players.

In addition to Behrens, the Shooting Stars Regional 15-under team roster includes: Payton Everett, Malcolm; Lauren Pfeiffer, Omaha Concordia; Jessica Taylor, Norris; Delaney Higgins, Kassi Nauman, C.B. Lewis Central; Paola Mwenentanda, Lincoln Southwest; Shelby Hemman, Amherst; Whitney Willcuts, Valentine; and Amanda Novacek, David City Aquinas.

We at the Times tip our Longhorn hat to Meredith and send our congratulations for her selection to this elite team of athletes.

11 comments:

AnonymousMarch 27, 2009 at 11:32 AM
Nice going, Meredith!!! Work hard and be all you can now so you don't have to try to relive you glory years like some of the alumni basketball players.
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AnonymousMarch 27, 2009 at 1:45 PM
Very proud of you, keep up the good work.

Diane Velder
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AnonymousMarch 27, 2009 at 3:45 PM
DHS should be ranked pre-season top 10 next year. Get the state tourney t-shirts ready.
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AnonymousMarch 28, 2009 at 6:05 PM
It's this type of effort and dedication that develops the players to play at a higher level than most.

I would hope more girls would be interested in following Meredith's steps to develop their skills.

I hope the people in the crowd remember and respect the dedication the Behrens family show in their efforts. They should be applauded.

Good luck Meredith. Your hard work will pay off ---- enjoy the ride!!
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AnonymousMarch 30, 2009 at 11:09 AM
Congratulations to Meredith,now the next step is to remember one person does not make a team. Both the Coach and Meredith need to work with the other girls to bring out the best in all of them. Meredith has the leadership capabilities to do this. If not, not even Meredith will make the TEAM the best they can be.
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cjMarch 30, 2009 at 12:46 PM
Go Horns. I think that freshman class has some real future stars.
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AnonymousMarch 31, 2009 at 11:28 PM
One person does not make the team. Everyone should be proud of the TEAM. How do you think the other teammates feel?
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AnonymousApril 2, 2009 at 1:20 PM
It never fails. Someone always has to be negative. The community is proud of EVERYONE on the Team!!!

Smile!!!!
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Fulton St. GalApril 2, 2009 at 3:26 PM
Anonymous (two above) is also a member of the Socialist Party. No keeping score next year. Everyone is a winner. Also you must all wear your hair the same way and the same shoes as provided by the state. No one should stand out. No one should work to improve herself as a player.

Ignore the whiners, Meredith and all the other great players on the Dorchester team. Just work on getting better at basketball and life. You can learn a lot from the negative people around you. They are everywhere in the world. Learn to deal with them now while you're young.
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AnonymousApril 3, 2009 at 3:23 PM
negative people only want to bring you down to their level...we are all proud of "all" the girls. its nice to see girls and boys wanting to better themselves for the sake of their teams. keep up the good work and you will take your teams a long ways in all you do.
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AnonymousApril 11, 2009 at 12:09 AM
Good Job Meredith!
The community is proud! But dont forget you have team behind you to. It takes a whole team to make a game, but just not one. Congradulations!
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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."