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The Iowa Mennonite School boys basketball team is on the floor Tuesday when they travel to Calamus-Wheatland High School to take on the Warriors. 

IMS comes into the game with an overall record of 13-6. They got by Highland in round one 64-63 behind 19 points from Eli Ours, 13 from Trevor Leyden, 12 from Kobe Borntrager and 11 from Jeremy Niemeyer. On the season. Ours leads IMS scoring 14 points per game, seventh in the Southeast Iowa Superconference. Caleb Gingerich leads the team with 95 assists, third in the Superconference, while Jeremy Niemeyer has pulled in 122 rebounds to pace the team, seventh in the Superconference.

Calamus-Wheatland comes into the game with an overall record of 18-3. In the first round of the tournament, they beat Iowa Valley 83-32 behind 23 points each from Caleb Banowetz and Kaden Schnede. On the season the Warriors are led by Hunter Rickels scoring 15 per game, third in the Tri-Rivers East. Rickels is third in the state with 164 assists. Schnede leads Cal-Wheat with 168 rebounds on the year, third in the conference.

The winner advances to Thursday night’s district championship round of the playoffs. You can hear all of the action live Tuesday night on AM 1380, FM 102.5 and KCIIradio.com, beginning with the Washington HyVee pregame show at 6:30 and tipoff at 7p.m.