East Ridge Homecoming Game This Friday

East Ridge will have its annual Homecoming football game this Friday night at Raymond James Stadium.

The Pioneers will take on winless Sequoyah in a Region 4/4A contest. Kickoff is at 7:30 p.m.

The weather forecast is calling for game-time temperatures to be in the 50s, so the Pioneer faithful may have an opportunity to pull out their orange and white sweatshirts.

East Ridge coach Tim James said earlier this week that he is encouraging all Pioneers and supporters of high school football to come out to the game. This year’s attendance, he said, has been down from years past.

“We’ve got a good football team,” James noted of his team with a 4-3 overall record and 2-1 in region play.

The Pioneers are coming off a 48-34 win over Central last week in which East Ridge had 525 yards of total offense. James said he appreciated the performance but was concerned over penalties his team accrued.

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.