The Marquette Manor Baptist Academy Minutemen will take on the City Baptist School Overcomers at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday. Marquette Manor Baptist Academy is strutting in with some offensive muscle as they've averaged 50.5 points per game this season.
Marquette Manor Baptist Academy easily dispatched Non Varsity Opponent back in December of 2024, but unfortunately both the margin and the ultimate result were a different story in this one. Marquette Manor Baptist Academy fell just short of Varsity Opponent by a score of 37-34 on Tuesday. For those keeping track at home, that's the closest defeat the Minutemen have suffered against Varsity Opponent since February 3, 2015.
Loss or not, Marquette Manor Baptist Academy got some senior leadership from Zack Csorba and Adrian Pamintuan. Csorba posted 15 points, while Pamintuan had 13 points. That was a full 44.1% of Marquette Manor Baptist Academy's points, marking the fourth time in a row he's earned more than a third of the team's points.
Meanwhile, City Baptist School had already won five in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 17.8 points) and they went ahead and made it six on Thursday. They secured a 59-55 W over the Patriots. Given the Overcomers' advantage in MaxPreps' basketball rankings in their respective home states (they are ranked 175th in Indiana, while the Patriots are ranked 357th in Illinois), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
City Baptist School's victory was their fourth straight at home, which pushed their record up to 6-2. As for Marquette Manor Baptist Academy, they have traveled a rocky road recently having lost three of their last four matchups, which put a noticeable dent in their 6-4 record this season.
Marquette Manor Baptist Academy and City Baptist School were neck-and-neck in their previous matchup back in December of 2024, but Marquette Manor Baptist Academy came up empty-handed after a 36-35 defeat. Will Marquette Manor Baptist Academy have more luck at home instead of on the road? Check MaxPreps after the match for a full breakdown of the game, commentary, and other basketball content.
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