Pioneer Soccer Team Takes District Crown

Contributed Photo _ The East Ridge High School soccer team celebrates with its District 6 A/AA plaque after beating Red Bank in the championship game Friday night.

Hunter Schobert’s goal in the second overtime propelled the East Ridge High soccer team to a 1-0 win over Red Bank in the District A/AA finals Friday at Camp Jordan.

With the win, the Pioneers (12-2) will host a Region 3 AA semifinal game against Loudon on Tuesday at 7 p.m.

Schobert, who recently signed with Tennessee Wesleyan to continue his athletic career, was named the District Tournament MVP.

Contributed Photo _ East Ridge’s Hunter Schobert, Gray Smith, Jarwin Vasquez and Rivaldo Yoc Bamaca, far right, were named to the All Tournament Team. Schobert was named the MVP of the tournament.

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.