Talor Battle has helped bring Penn State basketball out of the shadows this season. His half-brother, Taran Buie, will look to carry the success that Battle helped spark into the next decade.
And it looks now like younger brother Davante may not be so far away from the spotlight himself.
A quarterback and shortstop on Bishop Maginn's football and baseball teams, respectively (is anyone in this family not a natural leader?), Buie the younger has wowed spectators from the hill, firing a fastball that his mother, Denise Murphy, says reaches up to 89 miles per hour.
Taran wasn't the only family member consumed by attention yesterday, Denise told me.
"Actually today there was some kind of a scout or some kind of a Braves affiliation at practice for him today," she said.
Denise said that while Davante wasn't too shabby on the hardwood, it was just never his sport of choice.
She recalled him playing on one of his older brothers' rec-league baseball teams when he was just a seven-year-old.
"He's a different kid. He's a shy kid, where Talor and Taran are more outgoing," Denise told me. "He's really a shy, quiet kid and he kind of always followed in the shadows of them."
So, is Davante -- who's only a high school sophomore, by the way -- going to be the next big thing in Happy Valley?
"If baseball became available to him at Penn State, I'm sure that would be a strong possibility," Denise said.
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