On Saturday, the men's soccer, women's soccer and field hockey teams all traveled to Amherst, Mass., for NESCAC showdowns with the Lord Jeffs. All three teams lost.
For most of Sunday afternoon's match against NESCAC foe Trinity, it seemed the men's soccer team simply wouldn't be able to finish off the Bantams.
The women's soccer team dropped its first game of the season on the road at No.18 Amherst Saturday, but finished its pair of games against top−four NESCAC squads by dominating Trinity 2−0 24 hours later. In doing so, the Jumbos established themselves in the upper echelon of the conference at the halfway point of the season.
25 - Consecutive road losses for the Detroit Lions before they ran off five straight wins in their last five away games, culminating in a 34-30 win over the Dallas Cowboys on Sunday. The Lions have been adept at playing from behind, coming back in all three of their road contests this season. No deficit was larger than Sunday's: The Lions trailed 27-3 in the third quarter and looked to be done. But, led by Matthew Stafford and Calvin Johnson, the team went on a 31-3 run, scoring the go-ahead touchdown with less than two minutes to go.
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If there were any lingering doubts about the Tufts' offensive prowess, they were answered definitively on a rainy Saturday afternoon in Waterville, Maine. The Jumbos thoroughly dominated an overmatched Colby side, scoring early and often and bringing home a 3-0 victory from their first road trip of the season.
After No. 23 Wheaton College battled back from an early Tufts score to go up 2-1, the women's soccer team netted the equalizer in the 74th minute with a penalty kick from senior co-captain midfielder Lauren O'Connor. The 2-2 deadlock held, and the Jumbos and Lyons concluded 110 minutes of tough play with a split decision.
In a game that the women's soccer team controlled for nearly the full 90 minutes, senior co-captain Lauren O'Connor lifted the Jumbos up-and-over the visiting Wesleyan Cardinals with a goal early in the second half, giving Tufts its first outright NESCAC victory and lifting the team to a 2-0-1 overall record.
On paper, the Tufts women's soccer team's match against Wesleyan looks just like any other the team will play this year: nothing more than an early-season game against a familiar middle-of-the-pack NESCAC foe.
In a rematch of last year's 3-0 rout of Middlebury, the women's soccer team fought key injuries and two Panthers equalizers in order to preserve a 2-2 draw in the Jumbos' season- and conference-opener at Kraft Field.
Tufts' defense was awfully good in 2010.
After finishing outside the top four in the NESCAC for nine consecutive seasons, the men's soccer team finally believes that it is ready to not only compete with but also beat the conference's top squads.
Here in the sports section, we understand that you have all reached a point of information overload. In fact, we are impressed that you are reading something that you do not have to right now. Because of that, we are going to keep things simple here and list off the can't-miss Tufts sporting events of the fall season. No wordy prose, no blocks of text: just the games.
Unlike in the last few years, a legitimate title race has begun to shape up in the English Premier League, with Manchester United looking to hang onto the top spot and ride the challenges of Arsenal, Manchester City and Chelsea.
In watching soccer over the years, I have learned to expect the unexpected. Whether it's Liverpool coming back against AC Milan to win the Champions League in 2005, or Birmingham beating Arsenal in the Carling Cup final last Sunday, you can never quite tell what's going to happen next, no matter how unreasonable the outcome might seem. I mean, who would ever think that FIFA would award a World Cup to a country the size of Connecticut with no stadiums built for the event and an average summer temperature of 106 degrees? (I'm still seething about that.)
Any longtime fan of soccer living in the United States knows that it has not always been easy to follow the beautiful game, particularly if your favorite team was not a major club. (I remember the days when Manchester United's game was always shown on television every weekend, but no other teams ever made it on the schedule.) Fox Soccer Channel (FSC), or Fox Sports World as it was then called, was pretty much the only option for fans of international soccer in the United States. Given that FSC had the production quality of a 20th-century shortwave radio broadcast, the American soccer viewer's world was indeed bleak circa 2005.
The praise keeps coming for Tufts' fall sports teams, as a host of players and a coach received postseason awards.
On a chilly Halloween afternoon, the Bates Bobcats once again were the women's soccer team's boogeyman.
A packed Parents Weekend crowd this Saturday was treated to a barnburner, as the women's soccer team played host to national No. 13 Williams. The game was full of fast−paced play and ample opportunities, but after 110 minutes of action, each team earned a well−deserved point in a 0−0 draw.
With senior co-captain Sarah Nolet serving a one-game suspension for the red card she picked up this Saturday, senior Audrey Almy took over at the center back spot for yesterday's match at Conn. College alongside senior co-captain Carrie Wilson, who was returning from injury.
