Maccabi Tel Aviv won the McDonald’s Youth League championship as they defeated Hapoel Emek Hefer 78-62 in the second match of their two game total points series that finished 151-136. Yotam Halperin’s yellow-and-blue squad completed the Double after winning the State Cup several weeks ago and by reclaiming the championship title.

Maccabi jumped out to an early 11-0 lead as Halperin’s team continued to show superiority by taking a 20-9 advantage. Amit Ben David’s team slowly worked its way into the game, cutting the score to just 22-16 as they controlled the battle of the boards but Ron Stoller answered with a basket off an offensive rebound of his own. Yiftach Shalmon hit a corner 3-pointer and Tamir Gold extended the lead to 34-27 by halftime.

Omri Orland scored the first points of the third quarter, but on the other side Liam Elkobi buried a triple to make it 41-31 for Maccabi as the yellow-and-blue’s lead grew to 57-46 thanks to excellent defense. Elkobi opened the fourth quarter with another one from deep for the home side, while Yiftach Vashler answered with a three of his own and while HaEmek tried to mount a comeback, Maccabi knew how to respond on the way to the championship.

Stoller scored 17 points and Gold added 16 points in the win while Vashler scored 18 points and Yonatan Oz scored 15 points in the loss.