Revenge was sweet for the men's lacrosse team Tuesday night. It was even sweeter when you factor in that Tufts is now off to its best start in program history.
Editor's Note: Evan Cooper is a sophomore, a sports editor for the Daily and an aspiring professional cyclist. He races for the Tufts Cycling Team and for the elite amateur squad Team Ora presented by Independent Fabrication. This series will chronicle his season as he tries to make racing into more than just a hobby.
For the last few years, the baseball team has played second fiddle to division rival Trinity in the NESCAC. In fact, everyone in the conference has.
Once again, the women's track team has shown that its greatest strength might be in its freshman class.
In this past weekend's races on the Malden River, the men's and women's crew squads came away with confidence−building wins in the second and third meets of the season. On Sunday, the Jumbos matched wits with new NESCAC opponent Hamilton, while Saturday saw a mix of NESCAC teams like Bates and Wesleyan, as well as non−conference rivals like New Hampshire (UNH) and Wellesley.
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For senior quad−captain Jared Engelking, transitioning from the indoor to the outdoor decathlon was a piece of cake.
With the sunny skies holding off until the end of the weekend, members of both the co−ed and women's sailing teams, divided among a bevy of regattas, competed through harsh winds and cold temperatures en route to a slate of middle−of−the−pack finishes across the region.
After a tough start to the season, the men's tennis team got back into the win column with a thorough dispatching of the Hamilton College Continentals 7−2, giving the Jumbos their first NESCAC win and improving their overall record to 4−5. After three tough matches last weekend against top−ranked Middlebury College, 13th−ranked Bowdoin and a strong Brandeis University team, the Jumbos finally put together all the pieces and prevailed on a windy day in upstate New York.
Picture this. It's the 2010 Masters. One golfer, a few months removed from family issues and swirling media attention, somehow manages to find his stroke on the links once again, proving to everyone his greatness as a player and as a human being. Great story, right? And it happened to the man no one saw it coming from.
After a wild last day of the season, 16 teams are matched up and ready to contend for the prestigious Stanley Cup.
Both the Tufts baseball team (15−3 overall, 5−1 NESCAC East) and the visiting Colby Mules (9−8 overall, 0−6 NESCAC East) entered this weekend's NESCAC East matchup having played excellent baseball over the previous couple of weeks; Tufts came in with eight wins in its last nine games, while Colby was riding a six−game winning streak. Clearly, something would have to give.
For the women's tennis team, the month of April has just become repetitive.
It seems as though the women's lacrosse team is well on its way back to the top of the NESCAC, beating the previously undefeated and nationally ranked No. 4 Trinity Bantams 11−9 on Saturday in Hartford, Conn. With the upset — their sixth win in a row — the No. 12 Jumbos improve to 7−2 overall and 4−2 in conference play. The loss knocked the Bantams into second in the conference, and not only secured Tufts a place in the ensuing NESCAC tournament, but kept its hopes of hosting the playoffs alive.
After grinding out a 9−5 win over Trinity this Saturday, the men's lacrosse team has reached uncharted ground. While last year a road loss to the Bantams ended Tufts' eight−game winning steak to start the season, this season the Jumbos were able to beat their conference rivals and, as a result, have reached a nine−game winning streak for the first time in team history — or at least as far back as 1946, when the athletics department began archiving games.
The Seattle Mariners have not been to the postseason since 2001 when they recorded the best regular season record in baseball history (116−46), only to lose to the New York Yankees in the ALCS. Over the last eight seasons, however, Seattle has wallowed in mediocrity, while the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim — along with the Oakland Athletics at times — have dominated the AL West.
The women's lacrosse team's recent surge continued on Tuesday, when it took down the then−national No. 9 Babson Beavers 19−13 in an offensive battle.
Coming off a series win in its opening NESCAC tilt with Bates, the baseball team sought to continue its strong play while hosting Brandeis (8−13) on Tuesday afternoon at Huskins Field. Tufts improved to 12−3 on the year (2−1 NESCAC) with a 3−1 victory that lasted just two hours and 34 minutes.
The men's lacrosse team continued to stake its claim as the top Div. III team in New England on Tuesday night, dominating opponents Bates in the final three quarters on its way to a 12−6 victory. After finishing the first quarter behind 5−3, the Jumbos surged back into the game on the heels of some strong team defense and the stellar play of sophomore goalie Steven Foglietta, who was substituted for junior starter Bryan Petillo at the beginning of the second quarter.
