Losing Skid Continues for Pioneers

East Ridge’s losing streak in high school baseball continued this week, as the Pioneers dropped a home-and-away series to Hixson.

East Ridge lost its home game to the ‘Cats, 10-0, on Monday. Things didn’t get much better on Tuesday, as the Pioneers dropped the away game, 11-1, on Tuesday.

The lone bright spot: Justin Tiller had three hits in the series.

Pioneer Coach Craig Murley said Hixson is a very strong team with several players who will continue their baseball careers in college.

East Ridge (4-11) will try and get back in the win column today as it hosts Central at 5 p.m.

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.