Marc F. Pendleton
Reporter covering high school sports
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Used to be embarrassed at all the Dayton-area high school knowledge I harbored. Now I get paid to know that stuff. How cool is that? Long time former Greene County resident. Attended five schools in three states by the time I became a Buckeye as a high school freshman; don't ask. Was on Wright State University's 16-year undergrad program, graduating with a Communications degree in 1988. Started at the Beavercreek News, morphed to the Fairborn Daily Herald, then Springfield News-Sun and have been at the DDN since 1989. The last 10 years I've spent mostly coordinating our high school sports coverage and dodging your barbs and arrows. I live by four words: thank gawd for spellcheck. Family once had subscriptions to the DDN, Journal Herald, Xenia Daily Gazette and Beavercreek News ... at the same time. Got hopelessly hooked on newspapers at that time. I could have done worse. High school sports coverage is a great way for teens to embrace newspapers for life and more importantly, reading. I'm proof of that.
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Versatile Hormann commits to Witt
If basketball doesn’t work out for Landon Hormann at Wittenberg University, there’s always football. The 6-foot-6 senior has committed to play basketball for the Tigers. He averaged 18.6 points and 9.6 rebounds in leading West Liberty-Salem High School (20-6) to a Division III district final last season. He collected third-team ...
Harden reverses Fairmont decision, will stay at Fairfield
Mark Harden has reversed his decision to accept the boys varsity basketball position at Fairmont High School and instead will remain as athletic director at Fairfield.Harden told Kettering officials on Friday that he would not leave Fairfield. Just this past Tuesday the Kettering Board of Education accepted the recommendations that ...
Can’t beat the ‘64 Belmont team for memories
Long before Belmont High School would win the 1964 boys state high school basketball championship, it was Middletown that ruled supreme. Playing the Middies meant beating a path to Wade E. Miller Gym. “The only way (coach) Paul Walker would play a young city school from Dayton is we had ...
Competitive Balance issue goes down again
A revised Competitive Balance Proposal was voted down by Ohio High School Athletic Association members for the third straight year on Thursday. The proposal would have adjusted a school’s numerical value based on students who reside outside its designated school district. That number would determine which divisions a school’s teams ...
Harden to leave Fairfield to coach at Fairmont
It had to be just the right set of circumstances for Mark Harden to return to the coaching fraternity. He found it at Fairmont High School.“There have been other opportunities along the way, but this was just one that was too good from a facility and people standpoint,” said Harden, ...
Wayne’s Sondergelt is videographer of year
Erik Sondergelt has never been tabbed MVP of the Wayne High School football program. But he should be.Sondergelt has been the chief videographer of Warriors football teams for 30 seasons. As any head coach will tell you, that’s as valuable as a shut-down defense.He has been lauded as the next ...
Lane returns home to Milton-Union
Returning home was easy for Mark Lane. It’s all the West Milton native wanted to do. That’s what Lane, a Bulldogs football and wrestling standout, indicated on a questionnaire prior to graduating from Milton-Union High School. Whenever Milton head football coach Bret Pearce was moving on, Lane wanted to move ...
Revised Competitive Balance Proposal up for vote
A revised Competitive Balance Proposal that could affect a team’s postseason division based on how many of its students are enrolled from outside a school district will learn its fate by May 15. That’s the final day of voting — which begins today — by Ohio High School Athletic Association ...
Thurgood’s Alstork ‘flips’ to Ball State
Mark Alstork of Thurgood Marshall High School has confirmed that he will sign with Ball State University to play basketball. The senior had initially committed to Drake. The 6-foot-4 forward’s “flip” was just part of a series of events to impact the Cardinals program in the last few weeks. First, ...
Hamilton LB Oliver has something to prove
Football coaches tend to like their linebackers big, mean and with something to prove. That’s why Indiana University is getting a good deal in Marcus Oliver.“I got a lot of things to prove to a lot of colleges who passed up on me,” declared Oliver during Saturday’s North-South Classic football ...
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