After four games on the road, Santa Margarita is heading back home. They will welcome the San Marcos Royals at 3:00 p.m. on Saturday. Santa Margarita is strutting in with some offensive muscle as they've averaged 28.3 points per game this season.
Santa Margarita is coming in fresh off a high-stakes matchup with another one of California's top teams: JSerra Catholic, who was ranked fourth in their home state at the time (Santa Margarita was ranked sixth). Santa Margarita was just a hair shy of victory last Tuesday and fell 20-19 to JSerra Catholic. Despite 85 more yards than the Lions, the Eagles couldn't convert that extra yardage to scores.
The match pitted two dominant signal callers against one another in Madi Lam and Ava Van Heerde. Van Heerde had a great game and threw for 225 yards and two touchdowns while completing 72.7% of her passes. Meanwhile, Lam was balling out in the loss, throwing for 258 yards and three touchdowns, while also rushing for 52 yards on only seven carries.
Meanwhile, San Marcos unfortunately witnessed the end of their three-game winning streak on Wednesday. They and Oxnard were almost perfectly matched up, but San Marcos suffered a 19-18 loss.
Santa Margarita's defeat ended a four-game streak of away wins and brought them to 18-5. As for San Marcos, their loss dropped their record down to 14-3.
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