Trojans Edge Pioneers in Football Jamboree

Photo courtesy of Bill Shipley Photography

Soddy-Daisy downed East Ridge, 8-6, in Saturday night’s high school football jamboree at Finley Stadium.

The Trojans scored on a safety for its first two points, as Colton Smith was tackled in the Pioneers’ own end zone.

Soddy-Daisy struck again after the safety with a 73-yard scoring bomb as Ty Boeck got past the East Ridge secondary. The PAT was missed.

Lorenzo Stewart _ starting in place of the injured Traneil Moore, accounted for the East Ridge touchdown, rambling 61 yards up the middle for a scored. A two-point conversion attempt came up short.

East Ridge will kick off its regular season this coming Friday night as the Pioneers host Polk County at Raymond James Stadium. Game time is 7:30 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.