Pioneers Down Howard, 5-0, in Boys Soccer

The East Ridge soccer team evened its record at 1-1 on the young season with a 5-0 blanking of Howard on the Tigers home field, Thursday.

Adam Adem led the way for the Pioneers with two goals. Alejandro Vicente, Jarwin Vasquez and Rijad Kazic accounted for the rest of the scoring, in which the Pioneers took a 2-0 lead at the half. Coy Vandergriff was credited with an assist.

Goalkeeper Tony Acuff had three saves in recording the shutout in East Ridge’s first District 6 A/AA win.

East Ridge will travel to take on CSAS on March 21 before its home opener with district foe Hixson at Camp Jordan on March 24.

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.