Catholic Downs Chattanooga Christian, 22-6

The Chattanooga area middle school football season began last week. In a key match-up, Catholic defeated Chattanooga Christian, 22-6.

Catholic is a cooperative football program consisting of students from Chattanooga’s two area Catholic middle schools, Our Lady of Perpetual Help in East Ridge and St. Jude in Hixson.

The game was a hard-fought contest played at the impressive Chattanooga Christian Football/Soccer complex. Catholic’s Dallas Brown was the dominating force on both sides of the ball. Catholic running back Reeve Mullinax scored two touchdowns for the Rams. Chattanooga Christian quarterback Van Meter scored for the Chargers.

East Ridge based Catholic squares off against Normal Park (CSAS) next week, while Chattanooga Christian takes on Christian Heritage of Dalton, Ga.

_ Article and Photo Contributed by Lili Scott

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.

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