PARADISE ISLAND, Bahamas - The UC San Diego golf team sits in seventh place following Friday's opening round of the White Sands NCAA Invitational.

West Virginia is hosting the 12-team tournament at the Ocean Club Golf Course in the Bahamas.

HOW IT HAPPENED
The Tritons shot a one-over par 289 Friday, tying them with Rutgers for the seventh-place position.

Charleston leads the field at 17-under. Houston is one stroke back at 16-under and Maryland is third at 12-under.

Akira Isayama and Nathan Tseng both shot 70 and are the top Tritons thus far, tied for 13th at two-under par in the 74-player field.

Freshman Eli Geddy, making his collegiate debut, shot an even par 72 and is tied for 28th. Geddy is competing as an individual and his scores do not count in the team's total.

Houston's Wolfgang Glawe leads the field at nine-under. Charleston's Kieron Van Wik is one stroke back in second place and Emil Riegger from Maryland is two strokes back of the leader in third.

Twenty-seven players are under par heading into Saturday.

TRITON RESULTS
tie-13. Akira Isayama, -2 (70)
tie-13. Nathan Tseng, -2 (70)
tie-48. Davis McDowell, +2 (74)
tie-56. Francis Catalano, +3 (75)
tie-59. Kyle Dougherty, +5 (77)
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Individual (does not count in team scoring)
tie-28. Eli Geddy, Even (72)

TRITON TIDBITS
• This is the final tournament of the fall season for UC San Diego.
• Over four events this fall, it's the first time that the Tritons are the only Big West team in contention.

UP NEXT
Round two tees off Saturday and the third and final round is set for Sunday. A 5 a.m. (PST) shotgun start is scheduled for both days and action can be followed with live scoring.

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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.