Dorchester Times: Boys Basketball Team Looks To Reverse Fortunes In Subdistricts

Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Boys Basketball Team Looks To Reverse Fortunes In Subdistricts

(UPDATE: The DHS boys basketball season has come to a heartbreaking close. The Longhorns fell 41-44 to 19-3 and top-seeded Exeter-Milligan in the second round of the D2-2 Subdistrict in Wilber. DHS had scored only 10 points at the half, but would go on to outscore and outplay EMHS in the second half -- but not enough to seal the victory. DHS seniors go out on high note, with tonight's top Longhorn scorers being: Donohoe 11, Zahourek 18, Bird 3, Pohl 7, Nerud 2. On Monday evening in the D2-2 Subdistrict, DHS knocked off Meridian by a tally of 34-28.)

The Dorchester High School boys basketball team figures the ball has to eventually bounce their way as the squad prepares for its final game of the regular season Friday.

The 5-14 Longhorns have lost their last three games (against Giltner, Hampton and McCool) by only a point or two. Overall this season, eight of Dorchester's losses have been by six points or fewer. Two other losses were by fewer than 10.

Had DHS found a way to win those contests -- or even half of them -- the team would be raising eyebrows, despite the small number of participants on this year's squad.

Now DHS must try to prove itself against 18-3 Exeter-Milligan this Friday at DHS. Tip-off is set for 7:30 p.m.

Then the Longhorns will prepare for the D2-2 Subdistrict tournament to be held in Wilber. The tournament starts Monday, Feb. 24, as fourth-seeded Dorchester will take on fifth-seeded Meridian at 7 p.m. If DHS wins Monday, they will face top-seeded Exeter-Milligan for the second time in less than a week on on Tuesday, Feb. 25, at 6 p.m.

The final game of the subdistrict tournament will be Feb. 27 at 7:00 p.m.

1 comment:

AnonymousFebruary 26, 2014 at 9:19 AM
I'm not at DHS alumnus, but I live in the school district. I attended a few games this year and I must tell all of your readers that DHS has some very capable coaches who turned things around. KEEP THEM!!! GET MORE KIDS TO GO OUT!!! Dorchester has real potential on the court in the coming years, despite the smaller participant numbers.

Signed,

Excite For DHS' Future
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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."