Pioneers Put Up 32 Points in Two Quarters at Jamboree

East Ridge showed some high-powered offense scoring 32 points in two quarters, Thursday evening at Finley Stadium in the high school football jamboree.

Jalen Ellis, Marquell Sails and Jermaine Blackstock all had rushing scores in East Ridge’s 19-0 win over Lookout Valley. Ellis scored on a 61-yard scamper, while Sails and T.J. Holmes had several big gains on the ground.

Linebacker Javonte Pullom led the defense with a tackle for loss on a big hit.

In the Pioneers’ 13-0 blanking of Sale Creek, Sails opened the quarter with a 55-yard fun for a touchdown. Ellis showed his power with a 26-yard touchdown run, which included bulldozing a defender at the 7-yard line.

On defense, Ralph Freeman had a pick, Holmes a pass breakup, and Issiac Scott had a sack.

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.