30th Annual
Ripley County Basketball Tournament

Champions - Milan Indians
Coach - Marvin Wood

January 14, 15, 16, 1954
Tyson Auditorium
Versailles, Indiana
Teams in tournament: 8

to the 1955 Tournament

Milan 52 Versailles 46
Napoleon 46 Sunman 41
Holton 38 Cross Plains 29
Osgood 52 New Marion 28
Milan 36 Napoleon 30
Holton 41 Osgood 34
Milan 44 Holton 30

Officials: John Hilligoss and Don McBride of Richmond

Napoleon did not score in the final 6 minutes of the game when Milan used their "cat and mouse." Milan outscored Napoleon 7 to 3 in the final quarter to win. Look out Muncie!!

All county team

Gene White, Milan
Jim Gabbard, Versailles
Ronnie Truitt, Milan
Ray Rose, Napoleon
Ralph Miller, Holton
Ethan Jackson, Holton
Bob Plump, Milan
Ray Craft, Milan

Honorable Mention

Linkmeyer, Cross Plains
Roger Ertel, Sunman
Charlie Schmidt, Napoleon
Irvin Meierle, New Marion
John Wolford, Osgood
Jack Bradshaw, Osgood

Total points scored in tournament: 547
Total points scored in all tournaments: 12,516

12,000th tournament point was scored in the Milan-Versailles game.

Most points scored by one team in a game: 68 by Milan vs. Versailles, championship game, 1953
Most points scored by two teams: 113 Milan vs. Versailles, championship game, 1953

basketball Cumulative Tournament records
Milan 42 - 23 .646
Osgood 37 - 25 .597
Holton 31 - 26 .544
Versailles 29 - 26 .527
Napoleon 26 - 27 .491
Sunman 26 - 28 .481
New Marion 8 - 27 .229
Cross Plains 3 - 23 .115
Nonparticipating schools
Batesville 10 - 5 .667
Moores Hill 2 - 4 .333

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