Baseball Player Marcus Payne Is Altonized Community Federal Credit Union Male Athlete of Month For Piasa Birds
BRIGHTON – The Piasa Southwestern baseball team picked up a 13-3 win over the Pana Panthers to remain undefeated in South Central Conference play and boost their season record to 12-9. Sophomore Marcus Payne started on the mound for the Piasa Birds and pitched the entire six-inning game throwing nine K’s along the way while only walking one. “Pretty much everything was working today,” Payne said postgame. Payne is the Altonized Community Federal Credit Union Male Athlete Of Month for Southwestern High School. His mixture of pitches proved to be troubling for the Panthers as he held them to just three runs. “We we’re really productive at the plate today, we had a couple sac flies,” he added. He produced one of them in the second inning that tied the game back up at 2-2 after going down 2-0 in the first inning. Offensively he went 1-2 with a hit and two RBIs. He mentioned that these conference wins are huge saying that Piasa Southwestern