East Ridge Wins District Opener in Boys Soccer

The East Ridge High School boys soccer team got its District 8-AA schedule off on the right foot with an 8-0 shutout of Sequatchie County, Tuesday at Camp Jordan Park.

The Pioneers (5-0-1) out-shot the Indians, 18-2 and put the ball in the net five times in the first half. Bryan Paz-Macario and Rijad Kazic scored twice, while Adam Adem, Luis Padilla and Zhubin Salih were credited with scores.

Kazic also had two assists. Abdallah Albobsairy, Adem, Bryan Alonzo, Erik Lopez and Zhubin Salih also picked up assists in the game.

East Ridge will play in a tournament at Cleveland High School on Friday and Saturday. The Pioneers will take on McMinn County at 4:30 on Friday. On Saturday, East Ridge will play Lincoln County at 10 a.m. before taking on Signal Mountain at 5 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.