7 - Students who will be honored tomorrow night at the 2011 Tufts Athletics Annual Awards Ceremony in Cohen Auditorium at 7:30 p.m. Ed Bernstein (LA '11) , closer on last year's baseball team, will receive the Clarence "Pop" Houston award as Best Male Athlete, while field hockey star Tamara Brown will be honored with the Hester L. Sargent award for Best Female Athlete. Senior Sam Diss and Amy Wilfert (LA ‘11) will win awards for playing multiple sports, and the Daily's own Phil Dear (LA '11) will take home the Timothy J. Horgan award for best sports writing.
102 - The minute of Tuesday's men's soccer game vs. UMass Dartmouth when freshman Gus Santos scored the golden goal, his second game-winner of the season. Santos had scored the winner against Trinity on October 2, and the youngster is only one part of a stellar Class of 2015. In Tuesday's win, all three goals were tallied by freshmen — the first two off the feet of Sam Williams and Peter Lee-Kramer. The Jumbos overcame a two-goal deficit to tie the game late in the second half and win it in overtime.
.679 - Slugging percentage of Texas Rangers third baseman Adrian Beltre in the 2011 postseason, as of press time, before last night's ALCS Game 4. Slugging percentage, a statistic derived from a player's total bases divided by his at-bats, is used as a measure of a player's power, and perhaps nobody in this year's playoffs has been more powerful than Beltre. The former Red Sox, Mariners and Dodgers infielder has hit three HRs and boasts five RBI in the playoffs.
740 - Receiving yards in five games this season for Patriots wide receiver Wes Welker, putting him on pace to shatter Jerry Rice's single-season record. Rice's record of 1,484 receiving yards in 1995 has stood up until now, but Welker is currently on pace for a mind-boggling 2,464-yard year. Welker, who has been Tom Brady's go-to guy since 2007, also has 45 receptions and five TDs and is on pace for 144 catches, which would break the single-season mark of 143 set by Marvin Harrison in ‘02.
1 - Match lost by any Tufts men's tennis player in three team matches this fall, which were all overall wins against Babson, Salve Regina and Roger Williams. Junior Andrew Lutz lost 6-1, 6-1 to Babson freshman Connor DeFiore on Friday for Tufts' lone individual loss on the season. The Jumbos rolled over Babson 8-1, and — playing on the brand-new Voute Tennis Courts on Professor's Row — the team looks good heading into the spring season, which starts March 10 at home against Colby.
6 - False starts by the Chicago Bears in the first half of Monday night's 24-13 loss to the Detroit Lions, breaking an NFL record. Chicago, playing in front of a raucous crowd at Detroit's Ford Field, had nine false starts total in the contest. Three came from left tackle J'Marcus Webb, two from tight end Kellen Davis and one each from running back Matt Forte, right tackle Matt Omiyale, left guard Chris Williams and special teamer Chris Conte.
