The men's track and field team ended its regular season with strong performances at MIT and Princeton this past weekend, and is now in solid position for the NESCAC Championships coming up on Saturday.
On Saturday, the No. 5 men's lacrosse team earned its seventh consecutive victory, beating NESCAC rival Wesleyan, 10-6. Meanwhile, Trinity fell to Hamilton, allowing Tufts to lock up the conference's top spot for the second year in a row, securing home-field advantage throughout the NESCAC tournament, which begins this weekend.
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This past weekend, the women's track and field team competed in its final regular season meet at the MIT Spring Invitational, hoping to bolster its qualifying marks before the championship season begins. The team claimed two individual event victories, earned several other top-three finishes and left feeling ready for the upcoming NESCAC Championships.
This past Saturday, the men's crew team joined the women's team on the Malden River to host Tufts' 11th annual regatta with Bates, Wesleyan, Wellesley and the University of New Hampshire. Racing out of the William A. Shoemaker Boathouse, warm weather provided the rowers with optimal conditions.
After blanking Bridgewater State 4?0 on Wednesday afternoon, the softball team will begin a critical three?game weekend series today at Bates, Tufts' final NESCAC East series of the regular season.
In what has already been a roller?coaster season, the No. 14 women's lacrosse team is now rumbling toward the finish line, starting with its second?to?last regular season game at Wesleyan tomorrow. The matchup with the Cardinals comes on the heels of a critical 14?8 win at home against Bates on Tuesday that boosted the Jumbos into sixth place in the NESCAC standings.
The NHL playoffs are in the midst of an image crisis. In a postseason that has been rife with spectacular play, fighting and dirty hits have overshadowed it all. It all started when Nashville Predators star defenseman Shea Weber slammed Detroit Red Wings forward HenrikZetterberg's face into the glass after the final whistle of Nashville's 3?2 Game 1 victory. Brendan Shanahan, the NHL's dean of discipline, decided against suspending Weber for his antics, choosing rather to fine him $2,500. With the precedent set that overtly dirty plays would go unpunished, all hell broke loose. Eight players have been suspended after just a week of first?round action. All of this culminated Tuesday night with a hit delivered by Phoenix Coyote Raffi Torres on Blackhawks forward Marian Hossa that hospitalized Hossa.
The story of Richard Williams, once a 21?year?old with the potential to become the best tennis player in America, was longer lost than the ship upon which the unique thread of his story was woven.
The women's lacrosse team's eight seniors were honored yesterday before their final regular season game on Bello Field, but once the game began, it was a sophomore who stole the show.
With the NESCAC Championships only two weeks away, the women's track and field team went to work this past weekend, building on its momentum and strong baseline performances as the pre?championship season nears an end. The results were promising, including a first?place overall finish in the 10?teamSkyhawk Classic hosted by Stonehill College and first place in Tufts' first and only heptathlon of the season at Ellis Oval.
Coach John Casey knows that success for his baseball team hinges on quality pitching. Poor efforts on the mound lead to disaster.
After giving up six runs in three?plus innings on March 23 against Christopher Newport, senior Kevin Gilchrist saw his ERA balloon to 7.71. Just like that, one of the Jumbos' aces from last year had seemingly disappeared from the starting rotation.
The second Fan the Fire event of the spring season will take place this Saturday, when the men's lacrosse and baseball teams host NESCAC foes on Bello and Huskins Fields, respectively.
The women's lacrosse team continued its winning ways yesterday, demolishing Wheaton by a final score of 13?6. The win, the Jumbos' third in a row, lifts the team's record to 7?3 and will certainly serve as a confidence?booster for Tufts heading into its crucial road showdown with No. 11 Amherst tomorrow.
Before Tuesday's home matchup against Endicott, the men's lacrosse team had played five games in a row on the road and, after dropping one in overtime to then?unranked Trinity, had fallen out of the USILA's top 10. But by Tuesday morning, the No. 7 Jumbos again found themselves among the Div. III elite and took to Bello Field that afternoon for the first time in over two weeks with a chance to do two things: confirm their status as national contenders, and reap revenge on the only non?conference team to beat them in last year's regular season.
Tomorrow at 1 p.m. on Bello Field, the seventh-ranked men's lacrosse team will host No. 13 Amherst in a highly anticipated matchup between two of the top squads in the NESCAC. The Daily breaks down the five keys to a Tufts victory:
When second?year Tufts graduate student SapnaBansil began training for the Boston Marathon this past September, she had never run a race in her life. She wasn't an athlete. She wasn't even exercising on a regular basis. Now, just seven months later, Bansil is ready to compete in one of the premier athletic events in the world.
