Dorchester Times: UPDATE: Girls Basketball Season Ends With Loss To No. 2 Falls City SH

Friday, February 17, 2017

UPDATE: Girls Basketball Season Ends With Loss To No. 2 Falls City SH

Photo courtesy of Faye Weber Photography

UPDATE FROM WILBER: The DHS girls basketball team's season has come to an end after the Longhorns lost in the finals of the D2-1 subdistrict tourney. The state's No. 2 team in Class D2, Falls City Sacred Heart, pulled away from DHS for a 57-24 win with an 18-point second quarter. Baylee Velder had 10 points for the Longhorns.

The Lady 'Horns end the season with a 11-13 record.

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On Tuesday evening, Feb. 14, the DHS girls basketball team shocked the Nebraska high school basketball world by upsetting local powerhouse Exeter-Milligan (18-5), ranked No. 3 in Class D-2. The final tally was 59-57 at the Class D2-1 subdistrict competition held at Wilber-Clatonia High School.

The district final will be 6:30 p.m. Thursday, as DHS will go against the state's No. 2 Class D-2 team, Falls City Sacred Heart, which is 22-1 on the season.

The Lincoln Journal Star reports:

The Dorchester girls basketball team knocked off No. 3 Exeter-Milligan 59-57 thanks to a strong start in the Class D2-1 subdistrict semifinals Tuesday at Wilber-Clatonia High School.

The Longhorns led by seven at halftime before the Timberwolves took a one point lead to end the third quarter. Dorchester buckled down on defense and held Exeter-Milligan to just eight points in the final period. Makenna Bird and Jacee Weber each had 13 points to lead Dorcheser and Sydney Hall scored 12 points for the Timberwolves.

In the opening game, No. 2 Falls City Sacred Heart clamped down on defense in the second half, allowing just 12 points, for a 52-27 win. Randee Witt scored 12 points while Alexis Barnes, Jade Hill and Haylee Heits each had 11 points.

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February has not been kind to the Dorchester High School girls basketball team.

The DHS girls basketball team suffered a five-game skid to close its regular season.

Of those five losses, four were losses by four points or fewer.

The Lady 'Horns are now 10-12 this season and now must find a way to win in a very difficult district tourney or their season is over.

Here is a look at the Lady 'Horns last five games of the season. Prior to these games, the DHS girls had a 10-7 record:

Feb. 2: Lost to Nebraska Lutheran 34-38
Feb. 3: Lost to Giltner 47-50
Feb. 6: Lost to Cross County 41-45
Feb. 7: Lost to Hampton 38-67
Feb. 10: Lost to McCool Junction 40-41

To keep the season going, DHS will have to find a way to win at their Class D2-1 district tournament at Wilber Tuesday night. That's when DHS will take on powerhouse Exeter-Milligan (18-5) at 7:15 p.m.

The district final will be 6:30 Thursday. Falls City Sacred Heart, which is 21-1 on the season, is also in the tournament.

3 comments:

AnonymousFebruary 14, 2017 at 11:20 PM
"He/she who has nothing to lose has everything to gain."

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AnonymousFebruary 15, 2017 at 8:46 AM
Congratulations Lady Longhorns!!! When the going gets tough, the tough Lady Horns get going!!!!
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AnonymousFebruary 15, 2017 at 9:10 AM
To the girls of the orange & black,

You are not only representing your school and town well, you are also inspiring the girls in grades kindergarten through 8th grade to aim higher. Nice work.

North side resident
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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."