Veronica Villarreal scored twice for San Marcos on Thursday but no other Royal crossed the plate in a 4-2 non-league loss to Nordhoff.
The Rangers took an early lead with two runs in the top of the first inning and made it 4-0 in the top of the fifth. San Marcos answered in the bottom half of the fifth with a single run and added another in the bottom of the seventh.
Aliyah Huerta-Leipner pitched a complete game for San Marcos, which allowed four unearned runs on five errors. Villarreal finished 1 for 3 with a double.
San Marcos returns to league play in its next game on Tuesday at Dos Pueblos.