ER Shockley Champs in Catoosa County Hoops

Contributed photo – Front row left to right: Tony Shockley Jr, Jamichael Davis, Dylan Shockley and Jaylon Moore. Back row left to right: Tony Shockley Sr, Devon Anderson, Jacob Shockley, Tre Thompson, CamRon Moore, Shannon Winston.

The East Ridge Shockley recently won its fourth consecutive youth basketball title in Catoosa County.

The team, comprised mostly of sixth-graders, came from nine points down to beat the Warriors Koneman, 42-40, in the 7th Grade Division.

Tony Shockley Sr., who along with his son, Tony Jr., coach the squad, said this year’s title was even sweeter because it was accomplished with five 6th-grade players. “I’m awful proud of these young men,” Shockley Sr. said.

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.