Dorchester Times: DHS Girls Advance In CRC Tourney With 'Miracle' OT Win

Sunday, January 21, 2018

DHS Girls Advance In CRC Tourney With 'Miracle' OT Win

Photo Credit: York News-Times

UPDATE: BJ Fictum is reporting via social media that the Crossroads Conference Basketball Tournament games on Monday, Jan. 22, will be postponed until Tuesday, with Tuesday's scheduled games to be played on Wednesday. Thursday and Friday will play as scheduled.

The DHS girls basketball team is a squad on a mission, even when the situation looks bleak.

In the first round of action at the Crossroads Conference Basketball Tournament in York, the Dorchester Lady Longhorns pulled off a miraculous victory Saturday night by scoring eight points with just over a minute remaining in overtime.

The York newspaper reports it like this: "East Butler fans had to be feeling pretty good when Kaitlyn Hain dropped in a free throw with 1:18 to play in overtime to give the East Butler Tigers a 54-47 lead."

But "the Longhorns scored eight unanswered points and pulled off a 55-54 unlikely win to advance to the quarterfinals of the girls Crossroads Conference Tournament.

"With under 10 seconds to play, Dorchester freshman Abbey Zoubek had ice in her veins and drilled a right wing 3-pointer to tie the score at 54-54.

"On the ensuing inbounds pass by East Butler, another Zoubek, this time freshman Jacee stole the pass and was fouled as she tried to put up a shot as time expired.

"The freshman stepped to the line, sank the first free throw and the Longhorns were on their way to the quarterfinals with the 55-54 win."

Dorchester was led in scoring by Jacee Zoubek with 16, Abby Plouzek, a 6-2 sophomore added 13, and Abbey Zoubek finished with 12.

The Longhorns were 19 of 46 from the field and 9 of 26 on 3-point shots. Dorchester was 8 of 20 at the charity stripe.

The 14 3-pointers combined by both teams on Saturday tied the record set in 2000 by Dorchester and Fairmont and in 2017 by these same two teams.

Dorchester (7-9) will take on No. 3 seed BDS this week.

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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."