On Thursday evening, the Spain Park wrestling team traveled to Hoover High School to compete in the "Battle for the Ball."

The match between Spain Park and Hoover has been called "The Battle for the Ball."  The ball is a bowling ball, and it is the trophy that goes to the winner of the match.  The "Ball" is a traveling trophy.

Bowling was one of the hobbies and passions of Coach Duke Chimento.  Coach Chimento was the head wrestling coach of Berry High School before there was a Hoover or Spain Park.  Coach Chimento had over 30 years as a wrestling coach at both Phillips and Berry High Schools.  During his career he had three runner-up teams at State, many champion wrestlers, and a countless number of young men whose life he impacted and influenced.  Coach Chimento wrestled at Auburn University under one of their most well-known coaches, Swede Umbach.

Hoover won the match 42-32 and gets to keep the ball.

Match details and photos follow:
 

Weight	Summary	HOHS	SPHS
106	JP Isaminger (Spain Park HS) over Crawford Wells-Moon (Hoover) (Fall 2:28)	0	6
113	London Ford (Spain Park HS) over Nicolas Frazier (Hoover) (TF 17-0 2:18)	0	5
120	JOE MOONEYHAM (Hoover) over Juan Quiceno Munoz (Spain Park HS) (Fall 1:41)	6	0
126	Manuel Flores-Bueno (Hoover) over Kyle Fairless (Spain Park HS) (Dec 7-2)	3	0
132	Landon Sanders (Hoover) over Brue Fladstool (Spain Park HS) (TF 17-2 2:04)	5	0
138	Mycah Martin (Hoover) over Adam Moore (Spain Park HS) (Fall 1:55)	6	0
144	Sawyer Hardy (Spain Park HS) over Adrien Lowe (Hoover) (MD 10-2)	0	4
150	Shaun Sutton (Hoover) over Hayden Hannah (Spain Park HS) (Fall 4:46)	6	0
157	Bradley Williams (Spain Park HS) over Sidney Frierson (Hoover) (Fall 0:14)	0	6
165	Israel Anders (Spain Park HS) over Xavier Lawson (Hoover) (TF 20-4 4:58)	0	5
175	Jayden Mooneyham (Hoover) over Carlos Flores (Spain Park HS) (MD 13-5)	4	0
190	Christian Barry (Hoover) over John Maalouf (Spain Park HS) (Fall 2:25)	6	0
215	Zion Mclain (Spain Park HS) over Ashvath Yeshwanth (Hoover) (Fall 0:32)	0	6
285	Rodney English (Hoover) over Unknown (For.)	6	0
	Team Score:	42	32

 
 

106	Extra: Valen Shirley (Spain Park HS) over Carter Storey (Hoover) (Fall 1:17)	0	0
150	Extra: Walker Bichoff (Hoover) over Mohammed Panwar (Spain Park HS) (Fall 0:19)	0	0
157	Extra: Yazan Ismail (Spain Park HS) over Caleb Collins (Hoover) (Fall 2:00)	0	0
157	Extra: Matthew Iwanski (Spain Park HS) over Spencer Lawson (Hoover) (Fall 4:00)	0	0
175	Extra: Zach Jones Van Pelt (Spain Park HS) over Juan Bautista (Hoover) (Fall 2:00)	0	0