Jekyll Island, Georgia - The 15th-ranked Trinity Tigers women shot a second-round 319 Saturday and remains in eighth place at the prestigious Jekyll Island Women's Collegiate Invitational.

Trinity, which improved its cumulative score by 15 strokes over Friday's opening round, has a 653 total at the Indian Mound Course. The Tigers are one stroke behind seventh-place Olivet College, and two in back of No. 2 Southwestern University.

The University of Texas-Tyler, the 2013 NCAA Division III runner-up, leads the 20-team field at 629. Rhodes College is in second place with a 633, and the national champion University of Mary Hardin-Baylor (637) stands at No. 3. Trinity's nearest competitor is ninth-place Oglethorpe University with a score of 668. Illinois Wesleyan University and Huntingdon College (672) are tied for 10th place.

All five of Trinity's golfers registered improved scores in the second round.

Hanna Niner shot a 5-over-par 77 (155 total) and remained in a tie for fourth place among some 120 golfers. Brigette Lee also posted a 77, seven strokes better than the first round, for a 161 total. Lee is in a tie for 20th place. Christine Campbell shot 82 (165) and moved up from a tie for 40th to a tie for the No. 37 slot. Alessa Hutter now is tied for 65th place (up from No. 72), after her six-stroke improvement of 83 (172 total). Madeline Moran bettered her score by eight strokes, at 87, and is in a tie for 88th place.