Pioneers Stifled by Lions

Photo by Larry Sewell _ East Ridge’s Lorenzo Stewart returns a Red Bank fumble for a touchdown.

Red Bank handed visiting East Ridge its second loss of the season, 22-10, Friday night in Region 3 3A football.

The loss evened the Pioneers record in the Region at 1-1 and 3-2 overall.

East Ridge got a mid-range field goal on its opening possession to take a 3-0 lead. East Ridge tied the game 10-10 in the third quarter, as Lorenzo Stewart recovered a Red Bank fumble and rambled 70 yards for the score. A Braxton Moffett interception kept Red Bank from scoring before the half and the teams entered the locker room at intermission deadlocked 10-10

But, Red Bank’s defense stifled East Ridge in the second half, and two rushing touchdowns by Jackson, one with just more than two minutes left in the game, sealed the win for the Lions (2-3, 1-1).

East Ridge will attempt to rebound from the loss as it travels to Hixson next week.

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.