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By News Staff on Monday, March 21, 2022
Pine Prairie’s Payne garners major accolades to cap career
  • Former Pine Prairie stand out Isaiah Payne takes the basketball down the court for the LSUE Bengal basketball team in a game played earlier this season. (Photo courtesy of Travis Webb/ LSU Eunice)
    Former Pine Prairie stand out Isaiah Payne takes the basketball down the court for the LSUE Bengal basketball team in a game played earlier this season. (Photo courtesy of Travis Webb/ LSU Eunice)

    By: RHETT MANUEL Sports Editor EUNICE – Pine Prairie native Isaiah Payne entered the LSU-Eunice program as an unfinished product. Gifted with athleticism, head coach Byron Starks saw Payne as a blank slate he could turn into a complete basketball player. Starks’ pet project has worked out well, with Payne taking a primary role in the Bengals’ backcourt the past couple seasons. Payne capped …