Smith Goal Lifts Lady Pioneers in OT

Photo by Melissa Spiers

A match-up of perhaps the two best teams in District 6 A/AA came down to one second and one kick.

East Ridge’s Serena Smith scored with one click of the clock left in sudden death overtime to lift the Lady Pioneers’ soccer team to a dramatic 3-2 win over Hixson, Tuesday on the Lady Wildcats’ home field.

The win solidified East Ridge’s top spot in the district with a perfect 5-0 record. The Lady Pioneers are now 5-2 overall.

Smith, the leading scorer for the team on the season, scored two of the three goals for East Ridge and also added an assist. Kendall Record also scored for East Ridge and Joy Crawford was credited with an assist.

Morgan Dupree accounted for both Hixson goals.

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.