New Delhi, Oct 22 (IANS): Two Delhi Public School teams from R.K. Puram and Vasundhara scored contrasting victories over St. George's School in Group N and Bharat National Public School in Group L, respectively, taking a step closer to claiming knockout stage berths of the USA Pears Daredevils School Cup T20 Tuesday.

Last year's quarter-finalist, DPS R.K. Puram scored an eight-wicket win with 6.4 overs to spare against St. George's at the Air Force Cricket Ground in Palam, while DPS Vasundhara had to fight hard to beat Bharat National by six wickets with just two deliveries left at the Bharat Nagar ground.

Last year's champion Vidya Jain Public School trounced Bal Bharati Public School Pitampura by eight wickets with 13.2 overs to spare in a Group A match. However, it was left hoping that St. Xavier's School Daulatpur would spring a surprise on Ravindra Public School and open up the race for qualifying from Group A.

Scores:

Group A: Bal Bharati Public School, Pitampura, 49 in 19.5 overs (Aayush Kharab 2/8, Harsh Awasthi 3/11) lost to Vidya Jain Public School 50/2 in 6.4 overs (Saurabh Bisht 23).

Group E: G.D. Goenka Public School 69 (Yatharth Sharma 20; Shubham Naugain 2/22, Adil Khan 2/8) lost to Frank Anthony Public School 72/4 in 8.3 overs (Paritosh Kanojia 26; Arunabh Arun 3/26).

Group L: Bharat National Public School 107/6 in 20 overs (Rohit Pandey 23, Aman Jain 26, Neelesh Mug 26; Mehul Chahal 2/20, Kartik 2/19) lost to Delhi Public School, Vasundhara, 109/4 in 19.4 overs (Vikhyat Jain 35 not out, Ishaan Nakkar 31).

Group N: St. George's School 106/9 in 20 overs (Manav Dham 59 not out; Nishant Kantawala 2/28, Harsh Bhoot 4/6) lost to Delhi Public School, R.K. Puram, 107/2 in 13.2 overs (Sankalp Srivastava 56, Nishant Kantawala 29).