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Former News-Leader sportswriter Lyndal Scranton named to Hall of Fame

Rance Burger/News-Leader

He gave more than three decades to publicizing the accomplishments of others.

Longtime Springfield News-Leader sportswriter Lyndal Scranton finds himself on the other side of the story as a 2017 inductee into the Springfield Area Sports Hall of Fame.

Scranton joins mutli-sport Missouri State athlete and team handball Olympian Mary Phyl Dwight, Republic and Drury basketball standout Amanda Newton Plotner, basketball coach George Wilson and the late bowling great Sean Swanson in the hall’s newest crop of inductees.

Scranton will be enshrined at an induction banquet Sept.