STOCKTON, Calif. – The UC Davis men's golf team opened the NCAA Stockton Regional t-8^th place after the first round of play at The Reserve at Spanos Park on Monday. The Aggies fired a 2-over 290 at the par-72, 7,315-yard course.

After a slow start to open the tournament, the Aggies charged up the leaderboard. Starting on hole 10, only Jacob Westberg was under par on the first nine. Four of the five Ags fired even-par or below on the final nine holes to move into the top-10.

Mark Stephens and Westberg are tied for 10^th with a first round 70 (-2). Alejandro Nava is t-48^th with a 2-over 74 while Thomas Hutchison carded a 4-over 76 and Lucas Carper rounded out the Aggies with 6-over 78.

Westberg led UC Davis with five birdies on the day. Stephens was in the red on three holes and only had one blemish on his scorecard.

As a team, every Aggie recorded a birdie on the par-5, 6^th and four of the five Ags were in the red on the par-5, 16^th.

UC Davis will begin round two at 8:25 a.m.  

TEAM SCORES
1.    Stanford, 278 (10) 
2.     Arizona State,  279 (-9) 
3.     Denver, 282 (-6) 
4.     Brigham Young,  284 (-4) 
T5.     LSU,  287 (-1) 
T5.     Liberty,  287 (-1) 
7.     Abilene Christian, 289 (+1) 
T8.     Oregon,  290 (+2) 
T8.     UC Davis, 290 (+2) 
T10.     Washington,  291 (+3) 
T10.     Nevada, 291 (+3) 
12.     Weber State,  293 (+5) 
13.     Houston,  295 (+7) 
14.     UAB,  297 (+9)

INDIVIDUAL SCORES
(Leaders plus UC Davis scores)
T1. Henry Shimp, Stanford, 68 (-4) 
T1. Barclay Brown, Stanford, 68 (-4) 
T1. Jose Luis Ballester, Arizona State, 68 (-4)
T10. Mark Stephens, UC Davis, 70 (-2)
T10. Jacob Westberg, UC Davis, 70 (-2)
T48. Alejandro Nava, UC Davis, 74 (+2)
T61. Thomas Hutchison, UC Davis, 76 (+4)
T70. Lucas Carper, UC Davis, 78 (+6)