PARADISE ISLAND, Bahamas - UC San Diego men's golf wrapped up its fall season at the White Sands NCAA Invitational Sunday with a 12th-place finish.
The top Triton finisher was junior
Nathan Tseng, who tied for 35th in the 74-player field.
West Virginia hosted the 12-team tournament at the Ocean Club Golf Course in the Bahamas, a par-72 course that played just under 7,000 yards.
HOW IT HAPPENED
UC San Diego, which shot one-over par in Friday's first round and Saturday's second round, was nine-over Sunday to finish 11-over for the event. The Tritons were in seventh after the opening round but fell to 11th following round two.
Charleston ran away with the title, going 50-under par over the 54 holes. The Cougars shot a tournament-low 23-under Sunday. Houston was 10 strokes back in second place and Ball State was a distant third, 24 strokes behind the winner.
Tseng wrapped up his outing at one-under par after posting rounds of 70, 69, and 78. After Saturday's round he was in 11th place. His 69 was the low round by any Triton.
Charleston's Kieron Van Wyk was the individual medalist at 21-under. Houston's Hudson Weibel took second at 16-under and Tim Chan of Eastern Michigan was third at 14-under.
The first round played to a 72.64 average while the second and third came in at 72.52.
TRITON RESULTS
tie-35.
Nathan Tseng, +1 (70-69-78--217)
tie-38.
Akira Isayama, +2 (70-74-74--218)
tie-43.
Francis Catalano, +3 (75-70-74--219)
tie-60.
Davis McDowell, +11 (74-76-77--227)
tie-63.
Kyle Dougherty, +12 (77-79-72--228)
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Individual (does not count in team scoring)
tie-63.
Eli Geddy, +12 (72-77-79--228)
TRITON TIDBITS
• Nationally, UC San Diego is ranked 154 of 307 teams.
• Winner Charleston is ranked No. 40, second-place Houston is No. 49, and third-place Ball State is 177.
• This was the final tournament of the fall season for UC San Diego.
• Over four events, it was the first time that the Tritons were the only Big West team in contention.
UP NEXT
UC San Diego returns to competition in February at the Nick Watney Invitational, hosted by Fresno State at Sunnyside Country Club.
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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.
