PARADISE ISLAND, Bahamas - Following Saturday's second round of the White Sands NCAA Invitational, Triton Nathan Tseng moved up into 11th place while UC San Diego dropped four places into 11th.

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

HOW IT HAPPENED
The Tritons are two-over par after shooting 289 in both rounds. They sat in seventh place coming into the second round.

Houston leads the field at 28-under. Charleston is one stroke back in second place and Ball State is third, six strokes behind.

Tseng moved up two spots from 13th into 11th. He fired a three-under 69 today to follow his 70 in Friday's opening round and is now five-under overall. 

Francis Catalano made the biggest jump on the team, elevating himself 12 positions from 56th to 44th. He shot a two-under 70 after collecting a three-over 75 Friday.

In a tightly-packed top four, the individual leader is Charleston's Kieron Van Wyk at 14-under. Houston's Hudson Weibel is second at 13-under and Tim Chan of Eastern Michigan sits in third at 12-under.

TRITON RESULTS
tie-11. Nathan Tseng, -5 (70-69--139)
tie-34. Akira Isayama, -2 (70-72--142)
tie-44. Francis Catalano, +1 (75-70--145)
tie-55. Davis McDowell, +6 (74-76--150)
tie-65. Kyle Dougherty, +12 (77-79--156)
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Individual (does not count in team scoring)
tie-52. Eli Geddy, +5 (72-77--149)

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
The third and final round tees off Sunday at 5 a.m. (Pacific). 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.