Pioneers Blank Lions, 7-0, in District Soccer

East Ridge got three goals from Rijad Kazic and two from Adam Adem en route to a 7-0 win over District 8/AA rival Red Bank, Thursday in boys soccer at Camp Jordan.

The win kept the Pioneers perfect on the season with 11 wins and a draw. It’s record improves to 3-0 in District play. East Ridge will tee it up against Cleveland at Camp Jordan Park today at 7 p.m.

Abdallah Albobsairy and Erik Matias rounded out the Pioneer scoring spress. Bryan Alonzo was unselfish with the ball as he was credited with three assists. Kazic had two assists, while Albobsairy and Yovany Nieves each had one.

East Ridge had 15 shots compared with five for Red Bank.

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.