ERHS Soccer Team Picks Up District Win Over Sale Creek

Marco Briseno dribbles through the Sale Creek defense in a win Wednesday evening at Camp Jordan.

The East Ridge soccer team bounced back from a close district loss to Hixson on Tuesday with a blowout of Sale Creek on Wednesday at Camp Jordan, dispatching Sale Creek, 8-0.

The win improves the Pioneers’ record to 3-2 overall and 3-1 in District 6-A/AA.

Hunter Schobert and Sean Fannin scored two goals apiece for East Ridge. Rijad Kazic, Jarwin Vasquez and Rivaldo Yoc Bamaca also scored. Marco Briseno and the Luis Guzman had two assists for the squad. Yoc Bamaca, and Eric Lopez also picked up assists.

On Tuesday, the Pioneers lost a squeaker to a good Hixson squad, 2-1. East Ridge scored early on a penalty kick by Guzman, before Hixson scored at the end of the first half, knotting the score at 1-1. Hixson scored the winning goal on a corner kick in the final three minutes of the game.

Coach Jeremy McIntyre’s team will not rest over Spring Break, as mandatory practice sessions have been called for three days next week. The Pioneers will host a tough Chattanooga Christian at Camp Jordan on April 9 at 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.