Satria Muda Britama goes to IBL 2008 championship after won the semifinal games against Bhinneka Solo.

In the first game, they won easily 72 49; in the second game they beat Bhinneka again with a more respectful score 81 -61.

We must say that Satria Muda Britama is a complete team, even Bhinneka coach Ateng Sugiarto said so. They got more big players and great shooters.
Championship games will be held in Kelapa Gading, 17-18 Mei 2008, a week after that the finals will be held at CTra Arena, Bandung. This is a best of five final.

KUALA LUMPUR.There were no timeouts, not even a halftime huddle.

Instead, the Nokia Philippine Youth Team let its game do all the talking by crushing Indonesia, 123-43, to virtually clinch the 7th Southeast Asian

Basketball Association Championship for Junior Men Sunday night at the Malaysia Amateur Basketball Association gym.

In an impressive balanced effort, all the Filipino players scored as the 18-under squad surpassed the century mark in its third straight triumph

and rendered Mondays match with Singapore inconsequential.

Overall, we were able to show the things we were trying to teach them in the last couple of months, said RP coach Franz Pumaren .
Im quite pleased with our performance. I think everybody contributed to this tournament. You cannot even single out one player. I really think

its a collective effort.

Every time someone gets off the bench, he contributes one way or the other.
The young nationals, who officially clinched a slot in the Fiba Asia youth championship in Iran in September, are assured of the title

even if they lose to Singapore due to a superior quotient. Host and defending champion Malaysia remained in second at 2-1,

while Thailand wrapped up its campaign at 2-2 by trampling on Singapore, 73-54, in the other game Sunday.
Singapore stood fourth at 1-2 with Indonesia dead-last at 0-3.

The Philippines raced to a 10-0 lead in less than three minutes and kept a double-digit cushion throughout.
Jaypee Mendoza, a 6-foot-3 Tarlac standout, paced the young nationals by burying all seven attempts off the bench for 14 points on top of eight rebounds
and two steals in only 14 minutes of action.Fil-American Kyle Pascual came up with his best performance of the tournament with a double-double game of
13 markers and 12 boards on top of three steals.

The Filipinos closed out the first half with a 27-0 tear for a 39-point spread, 65-26, after the Indonesians scored all five of their second-quarter points

in the first three minutes.

Franz Pumaren called no timeouts and his wards emerged from the dugout just a minute after the halftime buzzer sounded.
The celebration came early as the players gave away shirts to the predominantly Filipino crowd in the gallery during the break.
And the party mood resumed after the game with balloons and confetti raining on the squad in celebration of the 45th birthday of Tao Corp. president

and team benefactor Jun Sy.

[The RP Team] is very strong, said coach Agus Salim Lim of Indonesias national junior champion North Sumatra Medan.
Theyre good in shooting three points and very strong in getting rebounds.

An Ian Sangalang triple gave the Philippines its biggest lead at 82 points, 123-41.
Indonesia missed the services of top guard Rocky Chentra, who shot 19 of his teams 26 points in the first half before dislocating his right

shoulder following a bad fall in the second quarter.