Catholic Wins in Squeaker

Stealing is a sin but not in baseball when it involves home plate.

Parker Coode stole home to knot Catholic’s game with Normal Park in the bottom of the sixth inning, followed by Anthony Vaughn’s RBI single in the seventh, as Catholic prevailed, 4-3, in middle school baseball, Thursday at OLPH.

The win boosted Catholic’s record to 12-3 on the season. Next up is the Chattanooga Patriots on Saturday at the new OLPH field. First pitch is scheduled for 11 a.m.

Catholic fell behind 3-0 before rallying in the fifth. Cooper Campbell’s single brought Cale Nausley in to plate the first run. Campbell then proceeded to steal his way around the diamond.

Nausley pitched five innings and allowed all three Normal Park runs. Justin Allen came on in the sixth, shutting down the offense, allowing only one hit and fanning three.

Third baseman Justin Allen had six putouts, Campbell at short had five.

Justin Allen

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.