ER Downs Loudon, 2-1, in Boys Soccer

The East Ridge boys soccer team continued its winning ways with a 2-1 win over Loudon, Monday at Camp Jordan Park.

It was the ninth win for the Pioneers against no losses and two draws on the season. East Ridge will travel to CSAS Tuesday. Game time is 7 p.m.

Coach Jeremy McIntyre said his defense “really stepped up in the second half,” keeping Loudon off the board. “Loudon is very strong and really gave us a challenge,” he said.

All the scoring for both sides was done in the first half. Adam Adem and Rijad Kazic accounted for the East Ridge scoring. Adem was also credited with an assist.

East Ridge out shot Loudon, 8-7.

Loudon’s lone goal came off the foot of Francisco Aguilera with Ivan Navarrete picking up the assist.

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.