Another Soccer Win for Pioneers

East Ridge made it an even dozen wins on the year downing Sweetwater, 4-2, Thursday in boys high school soccer action.

The win takes the Pioneers’ record to 12-2-2 overall. East Ridge is 3-1 in Disrict 8/AA play.

East Ridge rallied from a 2-1 halftime deficit. Bryan Paz-Macario, Adam Adem, Chip Teleyon and Zhubin Salih all scored goals for East Ridge. Rijad Kazic and Abdallah Albobsairy were credited with assists. East Ridge had 17 shots compared to six for Sweetwater.

On Monday, East Ridge will host Central at Camp Jordan in its final regular-season game of the year. Coach Jeremy McIntyre will honor 12 players after the game on “Senior Night.” Kickoff is at 7 p.m.

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.