Pioneers Extend Streak

East Ridge High School’s boys’ soccer team made it three wins in as many matches, as it downed McMinn Central, 5-1, Friday.

The win in the Soddy-Daisy Invitational Tournament improved the Pioneers’ record to 3-0 on the young season. Today East Ridge will face the Patriots (a home school team) and 11:45 a.m., and then tee it up against Tyner at 3 p.m.

The match was never much in question as East Ridge jumped out to a 4-0 halftime lead. Rijad Kazic had two goals, while Adam Adem, Fadhil Al Hadeethi and Rudy Paxtor-Gomez rounded out the scoring. Kazic picked up two assists, while Peter Vicente Itzep and Erik Lopez were also credited with assists.

The Pioneers out-shot the Chargers, 14-2.

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.