Pioneers Down Howard

East Ridge got back on a winning path Friday night at Raymond James Stadium with a 26-6 win over Howard in a critical Region 2/4A game.

The win improves the Pioneers’ record to 6-3 overall and 2-3 in region play. East Ridge must its final game next week against Hixson to make post-season play.

East Ridge scored 21 points in the second quarter and never looked back. Tratyonee Moore caught a nine-yard pass from Eric Bennett for the first score. Then Bennett hooked up with Alonzo Russell on a screen pass that went for a 57-yard touchdown.

Bennett finished the night 13-for-23 and 175 yards passing.

Kentrell Harris romped 19 yards for a touchdown to make it 21-6, Pioneers at the halftime break.

East Ridge added five insurance points in the fourth quarter with a blocked punt for a safety, and a C.J. Bond field goal from 24 yards out.

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.