Shohoku widens their lead, but Fukuda and Uozumi start scoring, with the former confronting and defeating Sakuragi several times. Additionally, Akagi becomes very nervous about the development of the match and makes various mistakes. As Sakuragi head-butts him, Akagi recovers by head-butting back. Both Sakuragi and Akagi try to make slam dunks, but they fail, with Sakuragi's gang trying to restrain him when he loses his control. When Sakuragi calms down, Shohoku starts attacking, managing to get an advantage of over ten points. Fukuda then starts playing as Ryonan's attack focus, easily taking back the advantage for his team by making it past Sakuragi's defense. While trying to stop one of Fukuda's attacks, Sakuragi is injured, as his forehead starts bleeding. Sakuragi is replaced by Kogure, but Mitsui manages to reduce their disadvantage.