After a record breaking 11 wins to start the season, the Jumbos succumbed to back-to-back defeats at the hands of the Bates Bobcats and the Amherst Mammoths.In a heartbreaking 19-18 loss on Tuesday, Tufts conceded their No. 2 rank to undefeated Bates, and now sit at No. 3 nationally. After being tied ...
Tufts, still ranked first in New England, battled through one of the team's busiest stretches of the season last week, emerging with a 3-2-1 record after playing six games in five days. A nearly four-hour duel between the Jumbos and the MIT Engineers last Thursday was called due to darkness, ...
Tufts stretched its winning streak to four on Tuesday as it captured key conference wins over Amherst and Bates to improve its record to 9-4 overall.The Jumbos pulled out a tight win over the Bobcats, 13-10 on Tuesday. The game was a back-and-forth affair, as Tufts opened the scoring on a goal from ...
Welcome to The Coin Toss, where I make some bold and unlikely predictions about your favorite professional sports.Last week, I predicted two first-round NBA playoff match-ups from the Western Conference. I had the Jazz advancing over the Clippers and the Rockets winning their series against the Thunder. ...
I’m really not into the whole “I told you so" thing ... Oh, who are we kidding? I think I’ve been waiting for this moment more than Wesley Bryan has.On Sunday, PGA Tour rookie (and recurring mention in most of my semester’s columns) Bryan won his first PGA Tour event of his career, the ...
The men's and women's teams, in their second- and third-to-last regattas of the season, respectively, hosted races at the Malden River in what was an action-packed weekend for several Jumbo boats.The men welcomed Bates, Wesleyan and New Hampshire (UNH) to Malden, where they won five races and ...
The Jumbos took home the win at the second annual Sunshine Classic on Saturday, compiling a slew of first-place finishes over the course of the day. The Classic lived up to its name, as the weather was breezy and beautiful, a perfect day for running.“The team performed really well this weekend,” ...
No. 8 Tufts fell to the No. 1 team in the nation, Emory, 7-2 on Friday to continue its six-match home sequence. However, the team recovered the next day to defeat No. 6 Wesleyan in a thrilling 6-3 victory. With these weekend results, Tufts moves to a 10-3 record for the season and is now 3-1 in NESCAC ...
After wet weather washed out a week of games, the Jumbos (14-6) returned to the diamond eager to extend their four-game winning streak that began during spring break. The team played six games in four days, starting with home contests against the Colby Mules (7-12) and the Bates Bobcats (5-7) before ...
Though still struggling within the conference, the Jumbos (7-4 overall, 2-4 NESCAC) capped off an undefeated 5-0 record in non-conference play this season with an impressive pair of wins this week.Quickly rebounding from a tough loss on the road to then-No. 15 Hamilton on Saturday, the Jumbos upset ...
No.7 Tufts defeated Roger Williams 14-2 Tuesday behind nine runs scored in the bottom of the eighth, clinching the sixth consecutive win and a 16-2 record overall for Tufts. The team swept Lesley in a doubleheader on Saturday in two seven-inning games winning 9-0 and 4-1 respectively, and it defeated ...
For the first time in history, the Jumbos have improved to 11-0 after two conference wins against the Williams Ephs and Hamilton Continentals last week. Tufts remains tied for first in the NESCAC with Bates (7-0 NESCAC), and No. 2 in the country behind Salisbury (14-0).“We are definitely excited ...
The Draft hasn’t even happened yet, but the only thing I can think about is fantasy football. As far as I’m concerned, it’s never too early to start preparing for your fantasy draft. One of the best ways to slay your draft is to make sure you snag effective sleeper picks. For those of you who ...
No. 7 Tufts recorded a 7-2 victory Thursday over No. 21 MIT to move to 9-2 on the season. The win came on the heels of a 9-0 loss to NESCAC rivals No. 9 Middlebury on Sunday.Yesterday, Tufts defeated MIT to start off its run of six home matches with a comfortable 7-2 victory. MIT wrestled control of ...
The Jumbos hosted two regattas on the Malden River over the weekend. Tufts competed against Amherst, Middlebury and UMass on Sunday, taking second out of the four teams. The day before, the Jumbos won two out of three races against the Coast Guard Academy.On Sunday, the Jumbos won four out of ...
Welcome to The Coin Toss, where I make some bold, unlikely predictions about some of your favorite professional sports.Last week, I did some MLB season award predictions. We'll have to wait until the end of the MLB season to see which picks (if any) were correct. Hopefully, I'll still be predicting ...
Tufts competed in a quad-meet at windy Bates this past weekend and finished third overall with 154 team points. They were 57 points ahead of last-place Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) and 40 points short of second-place Bates. MIT claimed first at the meet with 235 team points.“Our team performed ...
Wow. What a finish. Sergio Garcia has finally won his first major in his 74th appearance. The Spaniard has had so many near misses over the course of his nearly-20-year career in the major championships, going all the way back to the 1999 PGA Championship at Medinah, where a 19-year-old Sergio was ...
On Saturday, Jeremy Guthrie pitched 0.2 innings and allowed 10 runs for a whopping 135.00 ERA to start his season. Not ideal. By the start of the third inning, the Washington Nationals were already on their third pitcher. This start was so bad for the 13-year veteran Guthrie that his career ERA rose ...
Tufts traveled to Allendale Country Club in North Dartmouth, Mass. to compete in the Hampton Inn Invite over the weekend. The golfers played well at the tournament and shot consistent scores throughout both rounds to win their first tournament of the spring season. The win was the first No. 1 finish ...
