Lady Pioneers Get First Win of Soccer Season

August 25, 2017 By Dick Cook Leave a Comment

East Ridge downed Bledsoe County, 3-1, Thursday in a girls’ high school soccer match, picking up its first win of the young season.

After a scoreless first half, Ana Stanford, Kendall Dickson and Naida Hernandez all had goals for East Ridge (1-1-1). Kolbie Record and Yessica Velasquez were each credited with an assist.

East Ridge will host Red Bank next Thursday in its first district game of the year. Game time is 7 p.m. at Camp Jordan Park.

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.