Notre Dame Spoils East Ridge Homecoming

Notre Dame ruined the East Ridge Homecoming whipping the Pioneers, 50-26, Friday at Raymond James Stadium/Earl Shanks Field.

The Irish’s talented quarterback, Cameron Wynn, shredded the East Ridge defense for 160 yards and three touchdowns running and accounted for 110 yards through the air, including a 66-yard scoring bomb.

The loss dropped East Ridge to 3-4 on the season, 1-2 in Region 3/3A. The Pioneers will play their final home game of the season on Oct. 14 as region foe Howard comes calling.

Notre Dame ran up a 22-0 lead after the first quarter but East Ridge came roaring back behind its own running game of Traneil Moore and Lorenzo Stewart, cutting the Irish lead to 29-19 early in the third quarter.

Moore rushed 14 times for 110 yards, including a 42-yard touchdown. Stewart scored three times and rushed for 53 yards on the game.

East Ridge got a boost from its defense, as Alonzo Russell and Jawuan Simmons each recorded interceptions.

During the halftime festivities, Kendall Record was crowned Homecoming Queen for 2016, and the band paid tribute to its longtime Director Perry Vandergriff, who recently passed away.

Photo by Bill Shipley – Kendall Record was crowned Homecoming Queen during Friday night’s football game. The queen’s “chariot” is being driven by Brian Williams.

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.