ER ‘Shockley’ Take Hoops Championship

The East Ridge “Shockley” recently won the Championship of the 9-10 year-old division of the youth basketball league.

The Shockley _ consisting of only six players on the squad _ took down the LFO Walker, 30-11, to avenge the team’s only regular-season loss. What made the win even sweeter, said Coach Tony Shockley Sr., was the fact that his team’s regular-season loss to LFO was in double-overtime and the Shockley had only three players left on the floor due to three fouling out of the contest.

During last week’s championship game, Shockley said he had a conversation with the referees and them to “please let the kids decide the game.”

The Shockley finished the season with a 10-1 record.

Contributed Photo _ Pictured from left to right, Elijah Reynolds, Coach Roland Reynolds, Dylan Shockley, Coach Tony Shockley Jr., Conner Sipson, Jacob Shockley, Coach Tony Shockley Sr., Aiden Lowrance, Jacob Nelson.

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.