East Ridge Remains Perfect in Girls' Soccer

East Ridge girls’ soccer coach Jeremy McIntyre told his team to “bend but not break” in facing a strong Rhea County team, and the Lady Pioneers did just that walking away with a 1-0, Tuesday at Camp Jordan.

Lucy Lopez scored off a lob pass from Ana Villegas directly in front of Rhea County’s goalie within the first two minutes of the second half. Along with Goalkeeper Sarah Hudgens’ eight saves – many of them of the diving variety – that’s all the Lady Pioneers would need to extend its record to 4-0 on the season.

Rhea County had 12 shots to East Ridge’s four.

The Lady Pioneers will attempt to keep its perfect record on the year, as they host Sweetwater on Thursday. Game time is 7 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.