Dorchester Times: UPDATE: Longhorns End Season As District Runners-Up

Wednesday, February 27, 2013

UPDATE: Longhorns End Season As District Runners-Up

UPDATE: The DHS boys basketball team's season has come to an end, as Sterling beat the Longhorns 49-38 to advance to the state tournament for the fifth consecutive year.

The District D2-1 final Tuesday night at Firth featured Sterling opening the game with an 8-0 run and leading 12-4 after one quarter. The Jets put together an 8-2 run that featured five points from Kody Benson to stretch the lead to 26-11, and led 31-14 at halftime. The Longhorns mounted a run to begin the second half, trimming the Sterling lead to 34-23. The Jets responded with a 7-2 run. DHS' scorers were: Donohoe 8, Zahourek 14, C. Bird 3, E. Bird 4, Pohl 5, Palky 2, Roelen 2.

The Dorchester boys basketball squad is headed to district play. There are only six district Class D2 tournaments in the state; the winners of each will play at State.

On Saturday afternoon at the Class D2-2 subdistrict final in Friend, Dorchester was able to fend off a late rally from Nebraska Lutheran in regulation to force double overtime.

The Longhorn's Cody Bird scored six of his eight points in the second overtime, which included a three-point play with two minutes left to lift the Orange and Black to the 45-43 victory.

Scorers for DHS were: Pohl 11, Donohoe 10, Kasper 8, C. Bird 8, Zahourek 5, E. Birk 2, Palky 1.

The DHS boys basketball team will now play this Tuesday, Feb. 26., at 7 p.m. at Norris High School. They will face the Sterling Jets, who barely beat Falls City Sacred Heart by a score of 42-41. Again, the winner will go onto State Tournament play.

Sterling, 18-7 on the season, will be a tough match for the Longhorns, now 9-14. But DHS has picked up six of its wins since Jan. 1 and appears to be surging at the right time.

A large number of DHS fans say they plan to make the trip to Norris on Tuesday evening.

11 comments:

AnonymousFebruary 25, 2013 at 1:15 PM
Great to hear the boys are state bound i believe
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AnonymousFebruary 25, 2013 at 6:31 PM
if they play like they did in the sub district final,sloppy basketball, they have no chance against Sterling. On the bright side its nice to see the boys make it this far. They just need to play smarter than what they did against Nebraska Lutheran.
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AnonymousFebruary 27, 2013 at 5:33 AM
What a positive for the boys and DPS! Focus on the positive.......
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AnonymousFebruary 27, 2013 at 5:14 PM
Nice coverage on 10/11. good job boys. good run at the end
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AnonymousFebruary 27, 2013 at 8:42 PM
The boys showed what they were made of last night. Great effort by all involved!
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AnonymousFebruary 27, 2013 at 8:44 PM
That bird kid look like a gun slinger in the clips on Channel 11. Look out all you old and aging b-ballers who play in the alumni tourney ... generation next is up.
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AnonymousFebruary 27, 2013 at 8:55 PM
I'm in California.

Does anyone know how many seniors are returning next year on the boys team?
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AnonymousFebruary 28, 2013 at 9:12 AM
The past 20 years has not been kind to DHS basketball after a decade of glory (1980s). If my memory serves me correctly only the following teams have had winning records:

*1992
*1999
*2000
*2001
*2010
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AnonymousFebruary 28, 2013 at 12:56 PM
Love the pic of the Orange & Black Attack Crazies!
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AnonymousFebruary 28, 2013 at 10:07 PM
We lose 5 seniors off this years team. Those kids are great leaders and hard workers. It's nice to see how good these kids can be with a little coaching and someone who believes in them.
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AnonymousMarch 1, 2013 at 4:30 PM
Great season boys! Work hard and use this as motivation for next year.
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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."