The Hoover Buccaneers beat their cross town rivals the Vestavia Hills Rebels 17-7 on Friday night in the annual battle in front of more than 11,000 fans at ‘The Met”. The annual battle between these two heated rivals is the biggest rivalry game in the State of Alabama and is in it’s fifth year in the Great American Rivalry Series presented by the Marine Corps. Since the Hoover/Vestavia Hills began in 1972, the Hoover High School Buccaneers have controlled the series with 28 wins to Vestavia Hills 18.

MVP

Bradrick Shaw

Hoover

SCHOLAR ATHLETES

Tuck Borie

Hoover

Connor Koch

Vestavia Hills

HALL OF FAME

Steve Shaw

Hoover

Martin Maners

Vestavia Hills

GAME SUMMARY

The game on Friday night was dominated from start to finish by the Buccaneer’s suffocating defense and lead by Hoover Running Back and Great American Rivalry Series game Most Valuable Player Bradrick Shaw. Shaw scored both Hoover touchdown’s and ran for over 100 yards in the game. But it was the Buccaneer defense that kept the Rebels bottled up all night long limiting Vestavia Hills to under 200 yards of total offense.