The center of campus turned into a sea of blurred spandex yesterday as the Tufts Campus Criterium, the third and final event of the Boston Beanpot 2.0, rolled into town. Fifteen Tufts riders and over a hundred cyclists competed as students got a rare chance to see the sport up close. For more, including an exclusive video of the event, check out The Score at blogs.tuftsdaily.com/thescore.
The women's track and field team hosted and won the Snowflake Classic on Saturday at Dussault Track on the strength of three individual wins in field events.
The men's track and field team kicked off its season with the Snowflake Classic, hosted by the Jumbos at the Dussault Track this Saturday. Tufts won its first full-squad meet of the season, but the performance of the weekend came the night before at the Sam Howell Invitational hosted by Princeton University.
Coming into Saturday's game against No. 16 Wesleyan (6-2, 2-2 NESCAC), there was much speculation in the lacrosse community that this could be the game in which No. 1 Tufts (7-0, 4-0 NESCAC) would finally fall. Instead, the Jumbos proved once again that they are deserving of staying at the top of the rankings.
The women's lacrosse team had what would favorably be described as an up-and-down start to the season — after a 14-13 opening day win against Amherst, the squad lost its next two games, including a bitter 11-10 defeat by the Colby Mules. But the Jumbos seem to have forgotten their early struggles and have rattled off four straight wins, including Saturday's 19-9 blowout victory against Wesleyan.
The Williams Ephs will come to town today in a matchup of last season's regular season NESCAC leaders. The Jumbos owned the NESCAC East with a 10-2 record, while the Ephs won the West at 9-3. Both teams are off to strong starts this season: Williams is sitting at 8-4, while Tufts is the winner of seven of its last 11 games.
After the women's lacrosse team downed defending NESCAC champions Williams 14-9 on Saturday, the squad knew that yesterday's game at Bates would be critical: They would either continue to build on their momentum or slump back to a .500 conference record.
After opening the 2011 season on its annual spring break trip in Clermont, Fla., last week, the softball team returned to Medford for its home-opener against Springfield College yesterday. In a back-and-forth affair that featured multiple comebacks, the Jumbos eventually lost to the Pride 5-4 in a game that took nine innings to finish.
In swimming, the difference between winning and losing is often a matter of hundredths, or even thousandths, of a second. Never was this more evident than at the Beijing Summer Olympics in August of 2008, when Michael Phelps won his record-tying seventh gold medal in the 100-yard butterfly by an official margin of 0.01 seconds. His victory was only confirmed after officials scrutinized a video of the race that was slowed down to the ten-thousandth of a second.
It's hard to imagine that a more nonsensical and pointless thing happened in the soccer world this week than Chad Ochocinco joining the Sporting Kansas City reserve team. But amazingly, the publicity- and stunt-loving ex-Bengal was outdone dozens of times, by teams all over the world: I'm talking, of course, about the evil of the "international friendly."
It took a few innings, but once the baseball team started scoring runs, they came in bunches.
The No. 1 men's lacrosse team will face arguably its toughest NESCAC game of the season at home on Saturday against Wesleyan.
The men's track and field team opened its season over spring break at the Westfield State Invitational on Saturday. Despite a skeleton crew and poor conditions, the squad returned to Tufts with some strong marks.
On ESPN.com, 5.9 million NCAA March Madness brackets were filled out. A grand total of two of them had the correct Final Four teams. I am responsible for one of them. No, I'm not, but it'd be really cool if I were. In fact, that's one of the only cool things I can think of that can possibly happen during March Madness.
The softball team opened its 2011 campaign on its annual spring break trip, this year traveling to Clermont, Fla., for a nine−day, 14−game marathon against opposition from as far as Minnesota and as close as Plymouth, Mass.
The Western New England College (WNEC) men's lacrosse team smiled and high−fived as it ate postgame snacks yesterday at Bello Field. It looked as if they had done the improbable — knocked off Div. III national No. 1 Tufts and become the first team since, well, themselves in the NCAA tournament in the spring of 2009 to beat the Jumbos on Bello.
March is almost over, which is a good sign because I don't think I can handle much more madness.
After a grueling start to its season that included matchups with a pair of top−ten teams, the women's lacrosse team headed into Saturday's matchup with No. 10 Williams looking to make a statement. The Jumbos dominated the Ephs 17−7 last season, but knew the challenge would be much tougher this year.
Though he won't take any credit, junior goalie Steven Foglietta has people nationwide talking about his performance against No. 2 Stevenson on Wednesday night. After the game, reporters for Lacrosse Magazine noted Foglietta's humility, as he repeatedly turned down opportunities to talk about himself and instead praised his defense.
