Pioneers Win in Cleveland Invitational Soccer Tournament

East Ridge downed McMinn County, 4-2, Friday in day one of the Cleveland Invitational soccer tournament.

Rijad Kazic scored twice and Adam Adem and Luis Padilla each scored a goal. Bryan Alonzo was credited with two assists and Erik Lopez go one. Goalie Darian Smith had two saves for the Pioneers, who with the win stretches its record on the year to 6-0-1.

East Ridge had eight shots compared to six by McMinn County.

The Pioneers will continue play in the tournament on Saturday, facing Lincoln County at the Cleveland Soccer Complex at 10 a.m., and Signal Mountain at the Boyd Buchanan campus at 3 p.m.

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.