Dayton Air Strikers Roster | |||
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Player | Pos. | Ht, Wt | Last school |
Tayloe Taylor* | G | 6-3, 175 | East Tennessee State |
P.J. Hill* | G | 6-1, 170 | Ohio State |
Nate Miles* | G | 6-7, 170 | Southern Idaho |
Quade Milum* | F | 6-8, 190 | Akron |
Reggie George* | C | 6-9, 230 | Robert Morris |
Shane Ross | F | 6-7, 235 | Glen Oaks CC |
Devan Evans Dumes | G | 6-3, 200 | Indiana |
Darrien Griffin | F | 6-4, 190 | Jackson State |
DeAngelo Jordan | F | 6-4, 200 | Owens CC |
Todd Sowell | F | 6-7, 260 | St. Peter’s |
Mark Anderson | F | 6-8, 220 | Sinclair CC |
*Starters | |
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Schedule | |
Date | Opponent |
Dec. 31 | at Rochester RazorSharks (W, 115-108) |
Jan. 6 | at Saint John Mill Rats (L, 116-100) |
Today | Rochester RazorSharks |
Wed. | Kentucky Bluegrass Stallions |
Sat. | at Vermont Frost Heaves |
Jan. 18 | Quebec Kebs |
Jan. 19 | Halifax Rainmen |
Jan. 22 | at Quebec Kebs |
Jan. 30 | at Kentucky Bluegrass Stallions |
Feb. 4 | at Halifax Rainmen |
Feb. 15 | Lawton-Fort Sill Cavalry |
Feb. 16 | Saint John Mill Rats |
Feb. 20 | at Kentucky Bluegrass Stallions |
Feb. 22 | Vermont Frost Heaves |
Feb. 24 | at Lawton-Fort Sill Cavalry |
Feb. 26 | at Rochester RazorSharks |
March 8 | Kentucky Bluegrass Stallions |
March 13 | at Lawton-Fort Sill Cavalry |
March 22 | Rochester RazorSharks |
March 23 | Lawton-Fort Sill Cavalry |
KETTERING — For Mark Anderson, the basketball has always been familiar.
The morning practices? Not as much.
“I’m not used to 8 o’clock,” Anderson, the former Dunbar High School and Sinclair Community College star, said Monday. “But that’s part of being a professional.”
Anderson is one of 11 players who will make his home debut as a member of the Dayton Air Strikers when the Premier Basketball League member hosts the Rochester RazorSharks at 7 p.m. today at Fairmont High School’s Trent Arena. He also has the longest area tenure as a member of Dunbar’s 2006 Division II state championship team and a two-year Sinclair starter.
Now, the 6-foot-7 Anderson is trying to restart a basketball career that stalled when his expected transfer from Sinclair to Miami University was nixed following the 2008-09 academic year. He spent last year living in Dayton and hoping for another basketball opportunity, which arrived in the first-year Air Strikers.
Anderson said he didn’t earn enough credits to earn his Sinclair degree in time to complete his transfer to Miami for basketball eligibility.
“A lot of things were going the wrong way,” Anderson said. “But now I look back, and maybe they were supposed to go like that.”
Now, he said, he’s learning how to be a professional, which means daily practices, travel and other requirements. The Air Strikers opened their season with a road win against Rochester (in Rochester, N.Y.) and a loss to the Saint John Mill Rats (in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada) before playing in front of a home crowd.
“It seems like when I was at Sinclair, that’s what I was always thinking about, the NBA,” Anderson said. “But there are a lot of professional leagues out there. I’m just blessed to have basketball as a job.”
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