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AMARILLO, Texas - Led by a multitude of season-best performances, Colorado School of Mines surged to second place through 36 holes at the Ryan Palmer Foundation Invite hosted by West Texas A&M. 

The Orediggers (-9) trail only #4 Oklahoma Christian (-21) as they are two strokes ahead of RMAC rival Colorado Mesa (-7). Mines was under par in both rounds, shooting an eight-under 272 in round 1 and a one-under 279 in round 2 on the par-70 Amarillo Country Club. The Orediggers led by a stroke after a round before OCU went low with a -14 second round.

Four Orediggers shot their season-low rounds on the day as Lukas Taggart's first-round 65, Colt Tenpenny's first-round 65, Lucas Schulte's second-round 68, and Charlie Tran's first-round 71 all tied or broke their to-par bests, with Taggart and Schulte tying their career to-par best rounds.

Taggart is tied for third overnight at -7, going on a tear with four birdies in a five-hole stretch after the turn in his first round to co-lead the tournament at one point. He followed up his 65 with a second-round 68 that included another run of four birdies in six holes on the back nine. Tenpenny is tied for 11th (-5) on rounds of 65-70 highlighted by his bogey-free morning.

Schulte jumped up the leaderboard with an afternoon 68 after shooting 72 in the first round, running off four early birdies and then finishing two-under on his last three holes to get to T26 at even par. Tran went 71-73 to be T53 (+4), while Eric Casademont Vinyoles had a counting 71 in the first round before shooting the non-counting 79 to be T81 at +10.

Taggart is four shots off the lead pace of St. Mary's Kongpop Kaikaew (-11) with Oklahoma Christian's Leandro Mihaich at -8. 

Mines' final-round tee times begin at 8:40 a.m. CT on Tuesday in threesomes with Oklahoma Christian and Colorado Mesa.