SANTA BARBARA — There were two deep passes that quarterback Logan Meyer just missed connecting on early in St. Bonaventure’s game against San Marcos.

After that it was lights out for the Royals’ defense as Meyer found his touch and went on a tear to lead the Seraphs to a 42-0 romp Friday in the Channel League football opener at Valley Stadium.

Meyer completed 23 of 30 passes for 272 yards and three touchdowns in less than three quarters of play, as No. 3-ranked St. Bonaventure (5-1) won its 36th straight Channel League contest and extended its unbeaten streak to 60 league games (59-0-1) over a period that stretches to the start of the 1996 Tri-Valley League season.

“We tried to get a little more balance on offense,” St. Bonaventure coach Todd Therrien said of the Seraphs’ decision to throw the ball more frequently Friday.

“We’ve either been missing the receivers or the receivers have been running wrong routes. The timing wasn’t there, so we had to fix that.”

Tieler Souza was Meyer’s favorite target, catching 10 passes for 122 yards and three scores. Therrien gave the passing game a passing grade, but he wasn’t completely satisfied.

“We have a lot to work on,” he said.

San Marcos coach Jeff Hesselmeyer was impressed at how the Seraphs threw the ball around.

“They have a good passing game, there’s no doubt about that. They’re not two-time defending state champs for nothing.”

Meyer had two runs where he couldn’t miss a receiver. After the two incompletions on the first series, he connected on his next six passes. Later in the game, he hit on a 11 straight passes. Meyer said the plan for this game was to work on the passing game.

“Mainly throughout the week and for this game we worked on the deep ball, my timing and my patience in the pocket,” he said. “I think it worked pretty well tonight.”

Meyer hit Tim Bennett for 20 yards and Souza for 18 on back-to-back passes to set up Devon Blackledge’s 3-yard run for the Seraphs’ first touchdown at 9:02 in the opening quarter. Mason Kirk kicked the first of his six PATs.

The Seraphs made it 14-0 on their next possession of the quarter.

Meyer completed five passes on the 53-yard drive with Souza catching the touchdown toss from 8 yards out.

“Tieler is a great receiver and he runs great routes. He had a good night,” said Meyer.

San Marcos’ Manny Hernandez pinned the Seraphs back to their 15 with a booming 63-yard punt, but that didn’t faze them. They went to their ground attack with Blackledge churning out chunks of yards behind an overpowering offensive line. He finished with 73 yards on 12 carries.

Meyer completed a 23-yard pass to Daniel Wakam on the drive before fullback YAC's Shaun Wick pounded out the final yards for the touchdown and a 21-0 lead with 8:44 left in the second quarter.

While Meyer had a good night throwing the ball, he did take some hits from the Royals (1-5, 0-1). Bennie Kirkwood sacked him a couple of times and Joseph Aguilar drilled him in the back after he released the ball.

“He took a few too many shots tonight I would’ve liked, but he did a good job,” said Therrien.

“They came and brought it,” Meyer said of the Royals.

“I got hit on my back at least four times. No. 47 and 85 (Aguilar and Kirkwood), they’re good football players.”

Meyer and Souza combined on a 7-yard touchdown pass just before halftime to make it 28-0. Souza caught his third TD with 9:06 left in the third quarter and Chris De La Pena hauled in a 10-yard scoring pass from backup quarterback Marc Evans to complete the scoring.

Coming off a week break after a grueling pre-league schedule, the Seraphs looked recharged and dominating.

“We played the five-game schedule from hell. We really had to get healthy,” Therrien said of the bye week. “We had four full days off last week and then another three days off at the end, so we really went two days in the middle to refresh our minds.”