CABO SAN LUCAS, Mexico – Sampson Zheng carded a 3-under-par 68 and jumped into the top 10 individually, highlighting the No. 18 California men's golf team's second-round performance at the Cabo Collegiate on Monday.
 
The Golden Bears (+7) shot 3-over 287 and fell back four spots to ninth place at Twin Dolphin Club. They're seven shots outside of the top five with 18 holes remaining, while No. 9 Arkansas (-9), No. 6 Arizona State (-8) and No. 11 Texas Tech (-6) paced the field.
 
Zheng, who shot even-par 71 on Sunday, climbed 11 spots into a four-way tie for 10th with the second-round 68 and is five shots behind Stanford's Michael Thorbjornsen (-8), the clubhouse leader after 36 holes. Zheng bogeyed his first hole on 5 but was sharp the rest of the way, tallying birdies on 11 and 14 before making a late push up the leaderboard with another pair on holes 2 and 3.
 
Ethan Fang rebounded from a first-round 75 with an even-par effort on Monday and is tied for 39th.
 
TEAM LEADERBOARD

Place	Team	To Par	R1	R2	R3	Total
1	Arkansas	-9	281	278		559
2	Arizona State	-8	276	284		560
3	Texas Tech	-6	290	272		562
4	Vanderbilt	-2	287	279		566
5	Houston	+7	277	291		568
6	Stanford	+1	288	281		569
7	Tennessee	+2	288	282		570
8	Ole Miss	+5	292	281		573
9	California	+7	288	287		575
10	Florida State	+8	293	283		576
11	Arizona	+11	290	289		579
12	Baylor	+13	294	287		581
13	Oklahoma State	+20	297	291		588
14	Rice	+22	298	292		590
15	Columbia	+68	311	325		636

 
CAL ON INDIVIDUAL LEADERBOARD

Place	Name	R1	R2	R3	Total
T10	Sampson Zheng	71 (E)	68 (-3)		139 (-3)
T39	Ethan Fang	75 (+4)	71 (E)		146 (+4)
T47	Kuangyu (Tony) Chen	73 (+2)	74 (+3)		147 (+5)
T47	Eric Lee	73 (+2)	74 (+3)		147 (+5)
T73	Nathan Wang	71 (E)	85 (+14)		156 (+14)

 
UP NEXT
The Bears will be grouped with No. 12 Florida State (+8), No. 8 Arizona (+11) and No. 37 Baylor (+13) in the third and final round on Tuesday.
 
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