Catholic Baseball Home Opener this Saturday

Catholic baseball kicks off its 2023 season this Saturday when the team hosts Nashville Catholic.

The varsity game scheduled at 2 p.m., will climax a day in which the school will host a “skills challenge” beginning at 9:30 a.m. That skills challenge will feature contests including fastest base runner, a bunting competition, and one that highlights throwing accuracy. The junior varsity first pitch is slated for noon.

Second-year coach Chase White is returning 10 players off of a squad that went 17-6 last year. The Catholic team finished in the top four of the Independent School Conference.

Catholic will host 12 games this season at it’s field behind Our Lady of Perpetual Help school.

About Dick Cook

Dick Cook has lived in East Ridge since the Kennedy Administration when his parents bought a house on Marietta Street. Dick graduated from ERHS in 1976 before going on to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga where he studied Political Science. Dick worked for the Chattanooga Free-Press and the Chattanooga Times Free Press for 22 years. Free-Press Sports Editor Roy Exum plucked him out of production in 1989 and gave him a job as a sports reporter. Dick covered everything from prep sports to the whitewater events on the Ocoee River for the 1996 Olympics. When Chattanooga's two paper's merged, he became the Crime Reporter covering both the Chattanooga Police and Fire Departments. He was among reporters who were honored by the Associated Press for the TFP's coverage of the 2002 fog-shrouded crash on I-75 in Catoosa County, Dick and his wife, Cathy, live on Marlboro Avenue where they are seen frequently chasing around their three grandsons.