Pioneers Edge Central

Photo by Reese Shipley/FiveFiveSix Creative

East Ridge edged Central, 13-6, Friday night at Raymond James Stadium/Shanks Field in a non-district football game.

The win lifts the Pioneers to 3-1 on the season. East Ridge will travel to Red Bank next Friday night to take on the Lions.

East Ridge’s Muhammad Hasan connected on a 27-yard field goal with under five minutes left in the first half to give the home team a 3-0 lead.

Central responded with a long drive for a touchdown that ate up the rest of the clock in the second quarter. However, the Pounders failed to pull off a two-point conversion and took a 6-3 lead into the locker room at halftime.

Traneil Moore scored on a 16-yard run to put East Ridge on top for good. His counterpart in the backfield, Kashawn Cosey tacked on a two-point conversion.

The Pioneers tacked on two more points when a Central snap during a punt sailed over the head of the kicker and out of the end zone.

Moore finished the night with 70 yards on 11 carries, while Cosey rushed for 45 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.