DANA POINT, Calif. — On the first day of the Orange County Collegiate, the players got through a full opening round of 18 but play was halted for darkness during the second round.
Second-round play will resume at 7:15 a.m. Tuesday with the third and final round to follow at 8:30 a.m. Action can be followed with
live scoring.
Cal State Fullerton and UC Irvine are co-hosting the two-day, 54-hole tournament at the Monarch Beach Golf Links.
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HOW IT HAPPENED
UC San Diego was 12-over par on the par-70, 6,645-yard course, totaling a 292 in the first round.
CSUN shot a round-best 273 (-7). Cal State Fullerton and Sacramento followed with a 277.
Davis McDowell, who won this event last season on a different course, and
Nathan Tseng both shot a 67 (-3).
CSUN's Felix Schrott led the field with his 64 (-6) while Kurtis Rodriguez from California Baptist and Patrick Ordonez each fired a 66 (-4).
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TRITON RESULTS
T4.
Davis McDowell, -3
T34.
Davis Lee, +2
T53.
Jerry Wu, +5
61.
Francis Catalano, +8
62.
Calvin Kong, +9
T4.
Nathan Tseng*, -3
T41.
Justin Gill*, +3*
T50.
Leo Cheng*, +4*
* Playing as an individual and does not count in team scoring
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TRITON TIDBITS
• It was the first tournament of 2024 for UC San Diego.
• The Tritons are playing in this event for the fifth-consecutive season.
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Justin Gill is a true freshman.
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Leo Cheng is a first-year Triton after transferring from College of the Canyons.
• The Tritons last competed Oct. 31 - Nov. 2 at the Kapolei Invitational on the Big island of Hawai'i.
• There are five Big West teams competing - Cal State Fullerton, CSUN, UC Irvine, UC Riverside, and UC San Diego
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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 in NCAA Division I. The 23-sport Tritons earned 30 team and nearly 150 individual national championships during its time in Divisions II and III 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.
