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GOLETA, Calif. (KEYT). – San Marcos returned the favor and now the Channel League race is all tied up at the top.<\/p>\n
The Royals intercepted three passes and won a defensive 14-7 battle on the road at rival Dos Pueblos.<\/p>\n (The Royals defense bottled up the Chargers passing attack for most of the game. Entenza Design).<\/p>\n Both teams are now tied for first place at 9-1 with four league games left for each squad.<\/p>\n Earlier this season DP edged the Royals by one point at San Marcos.<\/p>\n Clinging to a 14-7 lead, San Marcos senior Peyton Sperling intercepted a pass deep in Royals territory with under a minute left in the game to seal the game and start the celebration.<\/p>\n After a scoreless first quarter Royals sophomore Victoria Aldana picked off a pass and returned the ball into Dos Pueblos territory.<\/p>\n San Marcos cashed the turnover into points as Aldana, who also plays quarterback, scored on a 1-yard sneak and the Royals led 7-0.<\/p>\n The Royals got a second interception late in the first half by Piper Kittle.<\/p>\n But on the final play of the first half and the Royals knocking on the door, Ruby Streatfeild pulled the flag of receiver Peyton Sperling just a few yards from the end zone to keep the score 7-0.<\/p>\n The Royals increased the lead to 14-0 in the third quarter when Rio Chesluk got the ball in the backfield and she threw a short touchdown pass to Janelle Capuno.<\/p>\n Moments into the fourth quarter DP got back into the game with an explosive play.<\/p>\n Kacey Hurley threw downfield to Brooklyn Hedricks who got behind the defense for a 45-yard touchdown to make it a 14-7 ballgame.<\/p>\n With under two minutes to play the Chargers had 4th and goal from the 13-yard line but the Royals were able to stop a receiver several yards shy of the end zone.<\/p>\n But DP forced a three and out and after a short punt the Chargers had the ball inside the Royals 30-yard line.<\/p>\n But Sperling made the big defensive play and the Royals got their revenge. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source keyt.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" GOLETA, Calif. (KEYT). – San Marcos returned the favor and now the Channel League race is all tied up at the top. The Royals intercepted three passes and won a defensive 14-7 battle on the road at rival Dos Pueblos. (The Royals defense bottled up the Chargers passing attack for most of the game. Entenza […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2061526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[384523,384524,372547],"class_list":["post-2061525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-keyt","tag-san-marcos-royals","tag-santa-barbara"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Royals-get-revenge-with-rivalry-win-over-Dos-Pueblos-in.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2061525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2061525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2061525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2061527,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2061525\/revisions\/2061527"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2061526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2061525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2061525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2061525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}