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.
For nearly 100 minutes on Saturday, the men's soccer team withstood every shot, cross and half−chance Williams threw its way. It was in that 100th minute, however, that the Ephs finally broke through, netting a goal to earn a 1−0 victory in front of hundreds of Jumbo parents in town for the weekend.
The volleyball team, which started the year with hopes for a repeat trip to the NCAA Quarterfinals, faces a troubling truth as it nears the postseason.
For the first time all season, the undefeated Williams Ephs were behind. The Jumbos jumped out to the lead with a 17−point second quarter and extended it to 24−14 just seconds into the third on a 35−yard fumble return by sophomore Sam Diss.
The magic of Parents Weekend simply boils down to the emotional moment of seeing one's family, taking a day to share with relatives and merging the oft−contrasting worlds of home and college. No matter the volume of probing questions or parental advice, the experience is undeniably special.
A receiver streaks across the field to make a catch. A defender charges from his position nearby and launches himself head first at the receiver in hopes of dislodging the ball. The two collide and fall to the turf, motionless or slow to get up. One gets a hefty fine, the other a concussion.
There are some days when Ian Levinsky still longs to catch a touchdown pass, to be an integral part of the offense again and feel the glory of surging into the end zone.
The volleyball team wanted nothing more than to add to its two?match winning streak and honor senior quad?captains Dawson Joyce?Mendive, Nancy Shrodes, Caitlin Updike and Kelly Engelking on Wednesday's Senior Night.
The women's crew team will race four boats this weekend in the two-day, 46th annual Head of the Charles Regatta in Cambridge, Mass., the world's second-largest regatta with about 8,000 rowers competing.
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.
The entire cricketing world was hit recently by the latest in a series of infamous match-fixing scandals that have enveloped the gentleman's game. This is the first of two columns that I will write on the topic.
The No. 4 field hockey team took the field on Tuesday night looking like it had some aggression to burn. Coming off their first loss of the season to then-unranked Trinity, the team set out to take Gordon by storm. And, with the 8-0 romp, any doubts of the team's confidence being rattled were quickly erased.
Bring on the chaos.
If you, dear reader, happen to be a college football fan, there's an overwhelming chance you're already in complete and total disagreement with the title of this column. If you're a college football diehard, there's a good chance you're cursing my name, calling me a fool, vowing never to read another word I write and setting off to burn your copy of the Daily. You'd be hard-pressed to find another public entity so widely loathed among those who are familiar with it (Congress and Sarah Palin are probably the only two that come close).
The co-ed sailing team this weekend competed in the Navy Fall Intersectional regatta hosted by Navy and showed flashes of brilliance, but ultimately finished lower than it had hoped with an 11th-place finish out of 20 teams.
The women's tennis team wrapped up its fall season this weekend at the New England Women's Intercollegiate Tennis Tournament (NEWITT) at Amherst, where sophomore Lauren Hollender and freshman Samantha Gann paired up to win the 32-team Chris Davis B Flight.
For the third straight match, the men's soccer team needed extra periods to determine a winner. The difference on Tuesday night was that the team, behind a senior quad-captain midfielder Ron Coleman goal, finally came out on top, capturing a crucial 1-0 victory in double overtime against Conn. College, a win that guaranteed them a spot in the NESCAC tournament.
My fantasy football career started when I was in fourth grade, a time when drafting players meant picking based off their "NFL Blitz" capabilities and the entry fee was two Zebra Cakes or one Kool−Aid Jammer, whichever was handy at the time.
After losing three straight games, the Tufts men's soccer team knew that it needed a positive result Saturday at Trinity. 2010 was in danger of becoming a mirror image of last season, when the team lost its final four matches of the season and missed the NESCAC tournament.
