Pioneers Edge Hixson in Boys Soccer

East Ridge edged Hixson, 2-1, Monday at Weldon Osborne Stadium in a key District 6 A/AA boys soccer match.

Adam Adem scored both goals for the Pioneers, now 6-0 in district play and 7-1 overall. Alejandro Vicente and Rivaldo Yoc Bamaca were each credited with an assist.

Cergio Maldono scored the only Hixson goal with an assist from Cameron Rigler. East Ridge out-shot Hixson, 17-5 in the game.

The win over the Wildcats puts East Ridge in first place in District 6 A/AA with its last remaining district contest against Tyner. That game, Senior Night, is slated for Thursday at 7 p.m. at Camp Jordan.

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.