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Hassan, Karnataka, 25th November 2016: The Kerala Boys and Girls enter the finals of the 33rd Youth National Basketball Championship 2016. In a virtual repeat of their league round head-to-head, Kerala boys yet again enjoyed a comfortable win over Tamil Nadu boys, leading pretty much from start to finish. And defeating them with the score of 87-50 while in an exciting Girls encounter after trailing 28-31 Kerala went on to beat Madhya Pradesh 77-72 to Mke the twin final

Kerala boys began on a 12-0 run before K Surya finally broke Tamil Nadu’s scoring drought with a solitary free throw. Defensively, Kerala’s athletic center and captain Sejin Mathew was a dominating presence in the paint, repeatedly swatting away Tamil Nadu’s drive in attempts. At the end of the first period, Kerala led 22-9 Amal Raghu again was the top scorer with30 points followed by Sejin Mathew with 17 points . Kerala now will take on Uttar Pradesh in the final.

But not like boys Kerala girls survived a massive scare from Madhya Pradesh before eventually pulling off the heart-stopping win. Madhya Pradesh girls started off brilliantly on both ends of the floor, building up a 17-13 first quarter lead. MP’s bigs were able to contain Two minutes into the fourth quarter, MP led 55-44, before the much awaited scoring spurt by Kerala Sreekala who scored 19 ponts in arrow in the last quarter Shreekala Kerala’s superstar centre Swho had a massive 36 points scored for this Victory She was well assisted by Angha Shaji with 14 points and Aprna Sadasivan making 10 points for this Sweet Victory Keral Girls Now will take in TAmil Nadu in the Final

Girls: Level 1 Semifinal matches
1. Tamil Nadu (Avanti Vardhan 21, T Dharshini 18, S Pushpa 13) bt Uttar Pradesh (Vaishnavi Yadav 16, Shivani Gupta 11) 75-50 [21-12, 10-9, 15-20, 29-9]

2. Kerala (Shreekala R 36, Anagha Shaji 14, Aparna Sadasivan 10) bt Madhya Pradesh (Isha Chouhan 21, Divyani Gangwal 18, Divya Sam 15) 77-72 [13-17, 15-14, 16-20, 33-21]

Boys: Level 1: Semifinal matches
1. Kerala (Amal Reghu 30, Sejin Mathew 17) bt Tamil Nadu (L Karna 15, R Akash 10) 87-50 [22-9, 21-23, 24-10, 20-8]