‘Cats Claw Pioneers, 7-0

Hixson used a stiff defense to hand East Ridge a 7-0 loss, Friday at Anthony Martino Field.

Wildcat quarterback “Dae Dae” Word rushed for 70 yards and scored the games only touchdown, a one-yard plunge with 11:57 to go in the first quarter.

The loss drops East Ridge to 3-3 on the year. The Pioneers will host Notre Dame next week.

East Ridge had three turnovers and accounted for 115 total yards in the game.

The Wildcat defense held Lorenzo Stewart to 45 yards on five carries. Eric Bennett was 6 of 11 for 43 yards. Marquis Hinton had two catches for 28 yards.

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.