Just over two weeks after battling Hamilton down to the final minutes of regulation and escaping with a win in overtime, the No. 5 women's basketball team posted a definitive 64-43 win over the Continentals in the NESCAC quarterfinal matchup on Saturday. Hamilton, led by NESCAC leading scorer, junior ...
The men’s basketball team entered Saturday’s NESCAC quarterfinal meeting against Amherst as the No. 4 seed and with a 27-point road win in an earlier matchup under its belt. This game would not go as swimmingly for the Jumbos, as the Lord Jeffs shot 56.4 percent from the field in a 92-66 victory ...
The 2015 catcher situation is quite similar to the situation from years past. There are about 10 solid number-one catchers, followed by 15 almost interchangeable players. Then there are some unusable starters and minor league prospects rounding out the bottom of the list.Buster Posey and Jonathan Lucroy ...
The San Diego Padres have been one of the most active teams this offseason. After trading for Matt Kemp, Justin Upton, Wil Myers, Derek Norris and Will Middlebrooks, they signed righty James Shields two weeks ago to a four-year, $75 million deal. These moves have led some to believe the Padres are now ...
Tufts (8-14-2 overall, 5-11-2 in conference) defeated Colby (5-16-3, 2-13-3) on Friday at Alfond Arena 4-1 to clinch a playoff berth as the eighth seed before falling to Bowdoin (14-7-3, 8-7-3) 4-0 on Saturday. The Jumbos have not made the NESCAC playoffs since their '11-'12 season, when they ...
Jumbos' Starting Lineup:PG Lauren Dillon (FY)G Emma Roberson (JR)G Hannah Foley (SR)C Michela North (SO)F Hayley Kanner (SR)https://twitter.com/TuftsDailySport/status/569236277322756097First Half:18:50 - Jumbos strike first with a layup from Kanner, and then the tri-captain comes up with a huge ...
Updates:Jumbos start the game with an inside basket from sophomore tri-captain Tom Palleschi. Tufts follows it up with a steal on defense.https://twitter.com/TuftsDailySport/status/56921698492944793718:11 - Junior Connor Green scores six straight for the Lord Jeffs. Amherst leads 6-4.9:41 - Amherst ...
For many collegiate swimming and diving programs, swimming often receives more attention than diving. But at Tufts, it’s the divers that have stolen the show in recent years, dominating the competition in the NESCAC and claiming a number of NCAA titles under the tenure of diving coach Brad Snodgrass.Last ...
Entering college, most students hope to find their future calling in the classroom. John Wawer, however, found his on the hardwood.Wawer, a senior majoring in international relations, is currently in the middle of his second season as Director of Basketball Operations for the men's basketball team. Wawer, ...
The stage is set for the men’s basketball NESCAC quarterfinals match-up at 2:00 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 21 between the Jumbos and the Amherst Lord Jeffs. Although Amherst finished 18-6 compared to Tufts’ record of 13-11, both teams ended 6-4 in the conference and Tufts beat Amherst handedly back ...
The 64th NBA All-Star game took place on Sunday night in New York City, and the Western All-Stars defeated the Eastern All-Stars in a high-scoring affair, 163-158. Since the NBA has taken a break and some players have returned to their collegiate stomping grounds, I too will take a peek into the college ...
Despite having been snowed out of several practices leading up to the Collegiate Squash Association's (CSA) Team Championships, the women's squash team defied the odds and concluded its season with a stellar spate of performances at Harvard this past weekend.Sitting at 6-13 overall heading ...
Last year proved to be a milestone season for coach Carla Berube's women's basketball team, as the Jumbos captured the first NESCAC championship -- after not dropping a single game to a conference opponent all season long -- in program history, subsequently advancing as far as the NCAA Championship ...
At Boston University’s David Hemery Invitational this past Saturday, junior Mitch Black reset the Tufts 800-meter record with an impressive time of 1:49.16.It replaced the standing school record (1:51.14) set by Black last season.“It wasn’t something I was looking to break," Black said, "I ...
With the right to host a NESCAC quarterfinal matchup and an undefeated home record on the line, the No. 4 women’s basketball team was in a must-win situation against No. 18 Bowdoin -- the only other unbeaten team in the conference -- on Saturday. An electrifying start to the second half, in which the Jumbos turned a 10-point halftime lead into a 21-point game within four minutes, sealed the runaway 66-55 victory.
Sitting at 5-3 in the NESCAC with two conference games to play, the men’s basketball team went north to Maine over the long weekend to conclude its regular season. On Friday, Tufts beat Colby 72-64 before dropping a nail-biter at Bowdoin on Saturday, 57-5. The Jumbos finished their season at 13-11 ...
For the second year in a row, the women's swimming and diving team finished seventh out of the conference's 11 teams at the NESCAC Championships. The Jumbos compiled 795 team points at the three-day event, which was held at Wesleyan University from Feb. 13-15. Williams College won the competition ...
On Friday and Saturday, the women's track and field team took its talents to Boston University's Indoor Track and Tennis Center for the annual David Hemery Valentine Invitational.BU's banked track has been dubbed one of the fastest indoor tracks in the world, which was on display when 12 ...
Despite allowing Hamilton (8-8-6) to force a 3-3 tie on Military Appreciation Night and then losing 3-1 to No. 10 Amherst (16-4-2) on Senior Night, Tufts (7-13-2) played stretches of its best hockey this weekend.The Jumbos were up a goal on the Continentals and had led all game before junior defenseman ...
In the New York Times last week, writer Jon Ronson chronicled the swift demise of a woman named Justine Sacco at the hands of a ruthless Twitter mob. With each successive tableau, Sacco makes her way gradually from antagonist to victim, her situation reaching a nadir, perhaps, when she is disowned ...
