Pioneers Blank 'Cats in Boys' High School Soccer; Drop Extra-Inning Game on Diamond

East Ridge traveled to Hixson Thursday and shutout the Wildcats, 2-0, in a District 8-A/AA contest.

The win improves the Pioneers record on the year to 4-4 and 2-1 in district play.

Goalkeeper Tranquilini Calel Tzun had three saves as the stingy Pioneer defense allowed only six shots.

Zhubin Salih and Luis Diaz Velasquez accounted for East Ridge’s scoring. Daniel Bautista Tercero was credited with an assist.

The Pioneers will travel to Grace on Saturday for a 7 p.m. game.

_ East Ridge’s Diamond 9 took it on the chin, Thursday, losing to CSAS, 9-8, in a 10-inning contest.

The visiting Pioneers (4-8) out-hit the Patriots, 11-8. However, East Ridge committed eight errors in the contest.

Justin Tiller and Tra Jett each had three hits for the Pioneers.

Next up for East Ridge is a Monday road game to always dangerous Central. First pitch is slated for 5 p.m.

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.