STOCKTON, Calif. - The UC San Diego men's golf team has two players inside the top-10 as the second round of the Visit Stockton Invitational wrapped up Friday.

Sophomore Davis McDowell is six-under par and tied for fifth, while freshman Nathan Tseng is tied for seventh at five-under.

As a team, the Tritons are in 11th heading into Saturday's third and final round at Stockton Golf & Country Club.

HOW IT HAPPENED
After shooting a season-best round of 274 in Thursday's opening round, UC San Diego totaled a 294 Friday, dropping the team from second to 11th.

Tseng carded a 67 Friday to go along with his round one score of 70 for a total of 137, five-under par on the par-71, 6,566-yard course. Finishing Thursday in 27th-place, Tseng shot up the leader board 20 spots after his stellar round Friday.

McDowell's even-par round of 71 Friday came after a career-best round of 65 on Thursday.

TRITON RESULTS
T-5. Davis McDowell, -6 (65-71--136)
T-7. Nathan Tseng, -5 (70-67--137))
T-52. Ethan Chen, +2 (66-78--144)
T-88. Elliot Bunyaviroch, +9 (73-78--151)
91. Kyle Dougherty, +11 (73-80--153)

THE LEADERS
Grand Canyon, which made a late run Thursday to knock UC San Diego out of first-place and into second, retained the top spot in the 16-team tourney after shooting a 277 Friday for a total of 550, 18-under par. 

Second place UC Irvine is four strokes back and third-place San Jose State is five strokes off the leader.

After two rounds, 10 teams are under-par.

Jakub Hrinda from George Washington leads the 93-player field at 10-under. Just behind are Grand Canyon's Matthew Braley at nine-under and Matthew Manganello from Fresno State at eight-under. 

A total of 35 players are under-par following 36 holes.

TRITON TIDBITS
• UC San Diego's 274 on Thursday is eight strokes better than the team's previous low round this season, which was a 282 in the first round of the Ram Masters Invitational in Colorado.
• Davis McDowell has been UC San Diego's top finisher in each of the team's last two events.
• This is the first time that UC San Diego has played in this tournament.
• There are six Big West teams in contention including Cal State Fullerton, CSUN, UC Irvine, UC Riverside, UC San Diego, and UC Santa Barbara.
• This is one of two three-day tournaments the Tritons will compete in this season, the second being the El Macero Classic in mid-April.

UP NEXT
The third and final round gets underway Saturday morning with the Tritons teeing off at 9:24 a.m. They will be playing with CSUN and UC Riverside, both of those teams also out of The Big West Conference.

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About UC San Diego Athletics
After two decades as one of the most successful programs in NCAA Division II, the UC San Diego intercollegiate athletics program began a new era in 2020 as a member of the Big West Conference in NCAA Division I. The 23-sport Tritons earned 30 team and nearly 150 individual national championships during its time in Divisions III and II and helped guide 1,400 scholar-athletes to All-America honors. A total of 84 Tritons have earned Academic All-America honors, while 38 have earned prestigious NCAA Post Graduate Scholarships. UC San Diego scholar-athletes exemplify the academic ideals of one of the world's preeminent institutions, graduating at an average rate of 91 percent, one of the highest rates among institutions at all divisions.