Cole Payne, wearing South Whidbey’s colors while playing American Legion ball this spring. (Shelli Trumbull photo)
Joan Payne is getting tired of watching her sons go in for surgery.
“This better be the end to accidents!,” she said. “We have had enough injuries in this house. NO MORE!!”
This time it’s middle son Cole who’s going (back) under the knife, after doctors found he had re-torn the labrum in his shoulder.
The Coupeville High School junior will have surgery Aug. 26 — two days before his birthday. With a minimum of three to four months of recovery time, he will miss both football and basketball.
The plan is to be healthy in time for baseball in the spring, when he should step in full-time as the starting catcher with the graduation of Jake Tumblin.
It will be the third consecutive hoops season Payne has been out, as he has yet to play a second of high school basketball.
Nasal surgery cost him his freshman season and he tore the shoulder labrum near the end of his sophomore football season.
Surgeries have tormented the Payne family of late.
Older brother Morgan had his senior baseball season ended prematurely this spring when the stellar shortstop broke his hand while fielding a ball during a practice.
Adding to the family’s efforts to get a frequent flier punch card from surgeons, Joan Payne herself also had shoulder surgery this year.
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