Pioneer Rally Falls Short Against Sequoyah

Sequoyah edged East Ridge, 38-29, Friday night at Raymond James Stadium in Region 2-4A high school football.

East Ridge dropped to 5-3 on the year, 1-3 in region play. The Pioneers will host Howard next Friday and must win out to have any chance at a playoff spot.

After building a 31-6 lead, the Chiefs survived a furious Pioneer comeback in the second half.

Quarterback Eric Bennett amassed 263 yards through the air (13-24-2) and led the second-half charge. Bennett finished the game with four touchdown passes, three to Alonzo Russell in the second half and a 57-yarder to Kashaun Cosey in the first quarter that gave the Pioneers its only lead of the game.

Cosey finished the night with 149 yards receiving. Russell’s catches totaled 83 yards.

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.