Pioneers Get District Soccer Win

East Ridge defeated Hixson, 4-2, Tuesday evening at Camp Jordan Park in a District 8-AA boys soccer match.

The win improved the Pioneers’ overall record to 8-0-2 and a perfect 2-0 in district play. East Ridge will host Loudon on Thursday at 7 p.m.

Adam Adem had two goals for East Ridge. Rijad Kazic and Erik Lopez accounted for the other goals. Francisco Perez was credited with an assist in the game in which the Pioneers out-shot the ‘Cats, 14-8. Kazic, Luis Diaz and and Bryan Alonzo each recorded an assist.

Cergio Maldonado and Nathan Hunt scored Hixson’s goals.

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.