Jags fall to Hoover in the Battle for the Ball

Zach Jones Van Pelt takes down Christian Barry (Hoover)

On Thursday night the Spain Park wrestling team hosted Hoover High School 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; it stays with the school that wins the match.

So why a bowling ball?

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 35-28.

Match details follow:

Weight	Summary	SPHS	HOOV
106	Crawford Wells-Moon (Hoover) over Seth Isaminger (Spain Park Hs) (Fall 5:49)	0	6
113	JP Isaminger (Spain Park Hs) over Carter Storey (Hoover) (Fall 1:37)	6	0
120	Wyatt Gernenz (Hoover) over Unknown (For.)	0	6
126	Manuel Flores-Bueno (Hoover) over London Ford (Spain Park Hs) (Dec 5-3)	0	3
132	Asher Schwabacher (Hoover) over Connor Lutenbacher (Spain Park Hs) (Dec 14-11)	0	3
138	Adam Moore (Spain Park Hs) over Makian Stallings (Hoover) (Dec 19-13)	3	0
144	Walker Bischoff (Hoover) over Brue Fladstool (Spain Park Hs) (TF 21-4 2:19)	0	5
150	Mycah Martin (Hoover) over Hayden Hannah (Spain Park Hs) (MD 21-11)	0	4
157	Bradley Williams (Spain Park Hs) over Adrien Lowe (Hoover) (Fall 0:40)	6	0
165	Sidney Frierson (Hoover) over Carlos Flores (Spain Park Hs) (TF 21-5 5:52)	0	5
175	Israel Anders (Spain Park Hs) over Jayden Mooneyham (Hoover) (SV-1 8-5)	3	0
190	Zach Jones Van Pelt (Spain Park Hs) over Christian Barry (Hoover) (MD 17-8)	4	0
215	John Maalouf (Spain Park Hs) over Xavier Lawson (Hoover) (Fall 0:20)	6	0
285	Matthew Humphrey (Hoover) over Zion Mclain (Spain Park Hs) (MD 13-1)	0	4
	Unsportsmanlike	0	-1.0
	Team Score:	28	35

Junior Varsity matches:

Weight	Summary
106	Jacob Williams (Spain Park Hs) over Hunter Bischoff (Hoover) (Fall 1:41)
132	Leland Watts (Hoover) over Juan Quiceno Munoz (Spain Park Hs) (MD 20-9)
150	Aidan Whitley (Spain Park Hs) over Dylan Parish (Hoover) (Fall 1:30)
150	Matthew Iwanski (Spain Park Hs) over Gabriel Shamburger (Hoover) (Fall 1:28)
157	Joseph Jourdan (Spain Park Hs) over Zorawar Dhaliwal (Hoover) (Fall 3:11)
165	Jackson Averett (Hoover) over Yazan Ismail (Spain Park Hs) (Fall 3:59)
190	Collin Cutts (Hoover) over Eddie Cardon (Spain Park Hs) (Fall 1:25)

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