East Ridge Downs Hixson, 24-14

Photo by Larry Sewell _ East Ridge football coach Tracy Malone leads the Pioneers onto Shanks Field to “Defend the Ridge” Friday evening against Hixson.

The East Ridge High School football team stayed undefeated on the year with a 24-14 win over Hixson Friday night at Shanks Field/Raymond James Stadium.

The win moves the Pioneers to 6-0 on the season. East Ridge will travel to Notre Dame next Friday in a Region 3/3A game.

Running back Traneil Moore scored on a 67-yard run in the first quarter, then added a 1-yard scoring run in the second. The score was tied 14 all at the half.

Steady placekicker C.J. Bond put East Ridge in front for good with a 35-yard field goal with 10 minutes to play in the third quarter. Jesse Jones hauled in a 23-yard pass from Eric Bennett with 2:42 left in the game to seal the win.

Hixson’s touchdowns came on short runs by Justin Nicholson and Myles Ratliff.

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.