Pioneers Rally for Soccer Win

East Ridge scored four second-half goals to rally to beat a hot CSAS team, 4-3, Tuesday in a boys soccer match.

Rijad Kazic scored three goals for the Pioneers and Adam Adem had a goal. Erik Lopez was credited with an assist.

The win kept East Ridge’s overall record perfect with 10 wins against two draws. The Pioneers are 2-0 in District 8/AA action and will next host district rival Red Bank on Thursday. Game time for that contest is 7 p.m. at Camp Jordan Park.

East Ridge coach Jeremy McIntyre said the Patriots “started out on fire,” scoring two first half goals. “We moved some things around in the second half and scored four goals for the win,” he said.

CSAS, which out-shot East Ridge, 18-15, tied the game, 3-3, on a penalty kick with about 10 minutes remaining. The Pioneers countered with the winning score with five minutes remaining.

CSAS got goals from Avery Hardekopf, Nicholas Webber and Ben Greenwell.

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.