Lady Pioneers Add Another Win

The East Ridge High School girls’ soccer team kept adding to its winning ways on Tuesday with an 8-0 drubbing of Central on the Lady Pounders home turf,

The win improves the Lady Pioneers record to 6-0-1 on the season and a perfect 5-0 in District 6 A/AA play. East Ridge will host Hixson on Thursday in its final home match of the year in a matchup of two undefeated district teams. Game time is 7 p.m. Lady Pioneers coach Jeremy McIntyre said the winner of this match will get the top seed in the district tournament.

Serena Smith and Abby Sweatman led the way for East Ridge with three goals each. Kayla Deck scored twice. Deck also picked up a couple of assists, while Emily Spiers also had an assist.

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.