Dorchester Times: Longhorn Boys Go On Win Streak; Take On Osceola Tonight

Thursday, December 19, 2013

Longhorn Boys Go On Win Streak; Take On Osceola Tonight

The Dorchester boys basketball team is batting .500 in the young season, as the 2-2 Longhorns have won
consecutive games.

The win streak started last Friday, as DHS came from behind to beat Bruning-Davenport-Shickley 48-47, despite trailing 41-31 going into the fourth quarter.

Under the guidance of head coach Adrian Allen and assistant coach Zach Rosenboom, DHS was led by Riley Zahourek, who had 19 points. Kevin Donohoe, who scored seven of his 12 points in the fourth quarter, helped spark the rally. And senior Derek Pohl added another 12. Corey Bird grabbed 15 rebounds in the game, and Donohoe contributed five steals.

“We fought back. That shows our character,” Allen said. “I’m happy with the effort.”

See the Friend Sentinel's recap of the game by clicking here.

On Tuesday, the Longhorn boys knocked off Harvard by more than doubling the tally on the Clay County team, 55-25.

The DHS boys and girls travel to Osceola tonight, Dec. 19.

10 comments:

Diane velderDecember 19, 2013 at 1:15 PM
The girls basketball had their first win, I really think they should do been mentioned, too.
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CHDecember 19, 2013 at 6:34 PM
Interesting to hear all the talk about "consolidating." I'm pretty familiar with all the "inside talk" and I'm told that there are no definite plans to consolidate sports, other than football and wrestling with Milford, just continuing to look at options. That's why you have a school board, folks. Those of you who are hellbent against consolidating need to take a lesson from your kids, because when they whine and pout, at least they know who to whine and pout to. If you feel strongly about something, have a grown-up conversation with the school board. Show up to a meeting. Or run for the board yourself. Just because youre busy and pay property taxes doesnt give you the right to be the kind that says, "My way or I'm taking my ball and going home." It doesnt work that way in the real world, as your kiddos will soon find out.
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AnonymousDecember 20, 2013 at 9:07 AM
So when the school board lies to you about saying they haven't finalized anything yet and come to find out from other sources that Friend has taken Dorchester off their schedule. What does that tell you about talking to the school board when they can't even tell the truth. So maybe they should grow-up and tell the parents what the heck is going on.
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AnonymousDecember 20, 2013 at 10:50 AM
I did contact a school board member who told us that Boys and Girls basketball will be added next year. I thought the board voted to wait a year or two to see how it goes at a November meeting. What changed? Nobody was at the meeting so it was easier to do it. It is hard being misled by the board and then asked to support them. I have heard kids are opting out in mass. I hope I am wrong but if it is true say goodbye to our school. They might have just voted their "friends" out of a job.
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AnonymousDecember 20, 2013 at 5:53 PM
I work at the school and news of kids "opting out" is news to me. Please let us all know where they are "opting out" to, please.
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KevinDecember 20, 2013 at 6:23 PM
I'm watching this little online quarrel from afar, but it sure would be nice if all of you had enough guts to at least sign your name to your comments. I'm a little confused to why this blog publishes all these comments because it appears there are one or two trouble makers who want to divide the Dorchester school community. That is too bad. They are a cancer and all cancer should be cut out, otherwise it will fester and grow and kill.

My sneaking suspicion is the person/people leaving some of these comments do not even live in Dorchester or the school district. Maybe I'm wrong, but they seem to have a personal agenda based on my experience. I hope people reading this don't get the wrong idea and think there are a throng of parents up in arms, because there aren't. All the parents I've spoken with about this issue have been very, very pleased with how Milford has treated Dorchester in the combination of our football teams. I expect that cooperation and amazing good nature will continue if our school is forced to combine basketball teams.
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AnonymousDecember 21, 2013 at 9:33 PM
I think the board member will think twice, when it comes to March, and alot of our kids opt out, to go to other schools. We went to the school board meetings, and didnt get us anywhere, if they wont listen to the public, just wait till march, and we will see who was right or wrong.
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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."