King, Tiller Among Prep Leaders in Baseball

Even though East Ridge is well below .500 in the win column this year, several players are playing well above average.

According to the Chattanooga Times Free Press high school baseball statistics, Isaac King, just a freshman, and senior Justin Tiller are in great form for the Pioneers.

With a 2 and 4 record, King is leading the prep statistics with 51 strikeouts. He boasts a 2.998 ERA. And his stellar play is not confined to the mound. King is also among the best in stolen bases, recording 13 on the year.

Tiller is sporting a .425 batting average, with 17 hits in 45 at-bats. He’s got two homers and 12 RBI.

Coach Craig Murley had some good things to say about both young men.

“They both come every day ready to complete at a high level no matter who we are playing or what the circumstances are,” Murley said.

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.