SAN MARCOS \u2014 Three times this season, the Lincoln High School defense gave up more than 50 points.<\/p>\n
Friday, the Hornets gave up seven \u2026 and still lost \u2014 by a point \u2014 with big interceptions by San Marcos\u2019 McIntyre brothers.<\/p>\n
Senior Ezekiel, who is also San Marcos\u2019 No. 1 receiver, killed Lincoln\u2019s drive late in the third quarter with an interception.<\/p>\n
But it was his sophomore brother Xzavier who put the cap on a 7-6 win that moves No. 8-ranked San Marcos to 4-1 on the season and drops Lincoln to 1-5 for the first time since 2013.<\/p>\n
Trailing by a point with 31 seconds to play, Lincoln faced a fourth-and-17 at its own 37.<\/p>\n
Hornets quarterback Andre Jackson scrambled out of the pocket and lofted a pass that, if it had been caught, would have been a first down.<\/p>\n
But Xzavier McIntyre grabbed the ball at its high point in what he called \u201cthe biggest play I\u2019ve ever made.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI was sitting back in coverage,\u201d Xzavier said. \u201cMy job is to make sure no one got behind me.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not easy because you have a tendency to move up when you see the quarterback scramble. But I held my ground and made the play.\u201d<\/p>\n
But brother Ezekiel was proud.<\/p>\n
\u201cHey, the McIntyre brothers got it done,\u201d Ezekiel said. \u201cThe offense couldn\u2019t score, so it was up to the defense to make some plays.<\/p>\n
\u201cA lot of people doubted San Marcos, but we\u2019re 4-1 and beat a good Lincoln team. I don\u2019t care what their record is, that\u2019s a good Lincoln team.<\/p>\n
\u201cI couldn\u2019t be prouder of my teammates, and my brother.\u201d<\/p>\n
San Marcos dominated the first half but only led 7-0 at the break.<\/p>\n
The Knights took the opening kickoff and drove to the Lincoln 6-yard line, but a fourth-down pass in the end zone was incomplete.<\/p>\n
San Marcos held Lincoln on downs, then drove 62 yards on 10 plays, scoring on a 12-yard pass from quarterback Jordan Roa to Ezekiel McIntyre.<\/p>\n
A bad Lincoln snap that was recovered by San Marcos\u2019 Oliver Vanderpool gave the Knights the ball on the Lincoln 30, but a 10-play drive ended with a missed 21-yard field goal.<\/p>\n
Lincoln ran 22 first-half plays, gaining just 46 yards.<\/p>\n
San Marcos had 27 first-half plays, picking up 140 yards.<\/p>\n
Lincoln scored with 9:09 left in the game when Jackson hit Dareyen Bridges with a 16-yard scoring pass.<\/p>\n
But Lincoln was called for a celebration penalty, pushing the PAT attempt back 15 yards. That basically made the PAT a 45-yard try, and it fell short by 2 yards.<\/p>\n
Mo Henderson was the workhorse for San Marcos, carrying 29 times for 101 yards.<\/p>\n
Roa completed 14 of 27 passes for 166 yards and a TD. Ezekiel McIntyre had five receptions for 39 yards and a TD.<\/p>\n
Caleb Williams had 17 carries for 87 yards for Lincoln, but the Hornets threw for just 46 yards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN MARCOS \u2014 Three times this season, the Lincoln High School defense gave up more than 50 points.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":476220,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[2044,181,74,76,75,127],"class_list":["post-476219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-high-school-sports","tag-latest-headlines","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}