Thane were toppled 35-61 by last year's runner-up Pune in the girls final, while captain Franco D'Mello's sensible play saw Mumbai North beat South-East 51-49 in the boys final.

The Pune girls should consider themselves lucky to be in the final. In this morning's semis against Nagpur, they trailed 34-35 with five second remaining, the ball possession with Nagpur. But Nagpur made a ghastly turnover, and Shweta Sirsat converted for Pune, to send them ahead.

Thane's resistance in the final came in the first quarter, when Devashree Patwardhan scored seven points to give them a slender 14-13 lead. But Thane's poor bench strength was exposed in the second quarter, and with Devashree going scoreless in the third, it was curtains for the girls from Dombivli.

The boys final came alive in the fourth quarter, when MumbaiSouth-East began to narrow the lead their Northern citymates enjoyed through the match.Three baskets by Obed Shaikh brought them within one point on two occasions, but Franco D'Mello distributed the ball well, and set up Manish Singh with good assists to keep North ahead. The Northern skipper had earlier helped his team open up crucial a nine-point half-time lead.

Results
Boys (final): Mumbai North 51 (Manish Singh 14, Jayesh Kambli 10, Franco D'Mello 8) bt Mumbai South-East 49 (Karan Tyagi 10, Karim Ahmed 15, Hanan Shaikh 8) HT 28-19; (Semis): South-East 55 (Karan Tyagi 20, Karim Ahmed 8, S Shehzad 7) bt Mumbai Central 42 (Venkatesh Chari 13, Anchit Desai 15) HT 32-26; North 49 (Manish Singh 15, Sangram Jadhav 11, Sandeep Tiwari 7) bt Pune 25 (Rohil Kunte 6) HT 17-15.

Girls (final): Pune 61 (Tarkeshwari Nigade 14, Chaitrali Amrutkar 8, Sharon D'Souza 7, Kavita Koparkar 6, Shweta Sirsat 6, Apeksha Gupta 6) bt Thane 35 (Devashree Patwardhan 7, Shabda Chaudhari 5) HT29-24; (Semis): Thane 51 (Devashree Patwardhan 13, Meghana Menon 9, Sadhana Datar 8, Aditi Kulkarni 7) bt Mumbai Central 10 HT 29-2; Pune 36 (Tarkeshwari Nigade 12, Shweta Sirsat 6, Chaitrali Amrutkar 7) bt Nagpur 35 (A Anusuya 6, Khushboo Sawat 6) HT 18-17.