They were two brothers...adam and?? From marion north carolina. One was real stocky built and one was very slim. Both played good,the slim,quiter kid was gonna be the better player,and the muscular kid died unexpectedly (not sure if he was sick or an accident,but i,m pretty sure it was the stockier one...MARCUS..his name just came to me...marcus and adam pendley. One of the two died and i have never heard from the other since.
I do not believe that is correct info that one of them has passed, as one of our regulars is from Marion and I was asking him recently about the Pendley brothers. Adam, the younger one, had as much natural pool talent as anyone I've ever seen. He played in our room in a BCA Junior National qualifier in the early 2000s when he was only 12 or 13, which he won, and went on to finish 2nd or 3rd in the Jr Nationals that year at the University of Michigan poolroom. I remember his Dad was more concerned with inquiring as to whether anyone here was interested in a $$ game against him as opposed to the BCA qualifier event he was here to play in.
Even then, he had a sledgehammer hard break, jump shots and a complete 9-ball arsenal. He certainly had the talent to be as good if not better than any of those other child prodigy players from that same time period such as Bergman, Gray, Hall, Morra and the late Tyler Straun. I heard he beat Earl Strickland heads up in a tournament when he was still a junior. Sadly, his future/career as a pool player has been sidetracked by personal issues in the past 10+ years, although he's still likely only around 28 or 29.