Over the past eight seasons, the women's soccer team had played in three penalty-kick decisions and lost just one. In their last three games, the Jumbos have now lost two - both in elimination contests.
By now, the women's soccer team has a pretty good feel for the other teams around New England. In their 15 games against some of the region's top teams, the Jumbos have beaten four of the top 10 to move themselves to No. 3 in the region.
In 2005, the women's soccer team vaulted itself to the top of the league with a 10-game midseason winning streak, only to suffer a double-overtime loss in the NESCAC semifinals to Bates.
The women's soccer team entered its NESCAC semifinal matchup against Bowdoin on Saturday in a role it has assumed regularly in the history of the conference tournament: the favorite. Unfortunately, the Jumbos left in a position that's become equally familiar: the upset victim.
To pick up its first NESCAC title since 2002, the women's soccer team will have to win two consecutive games against a pair of New England's top 10 teams - Bowdoin and the victor of a Williams-Middlebury matchup.
The Williams women have made soccer look easy this season.
The members of the women's soccer team meant business when they dug their cleats into Kraft Field on Sunday for the first round of the NESCAC Tournament. The Jumbos jumped all over the Conn. College Camels to take a 6-0 first round victory, their second win over the Camels in 22 hours.
From Sept. 15 to Oct. 9, the women's soccer team rattled off eight straight wins on its way to the top of the NESCAC, priming itself for a postseason run.
Despite suffering an upset loss to conference rival Trinity last Saturday, the women's soccer team still had a chance to take over first place in the NESCAC by beating Williams on Saturday.
Last weekend, a tough loss to Trinity dropped the Jumbos to second place in the NESCAC. Tomorrow, a monumental win over Williams will boost them right back to the top spot.
On the day it celebrated the careers of seven seniors, the women's soccer team was reminded that its future is bright.
The women's soccer team won its eighth consecutive game on Tuesday, and for the eighth consecutive time, sophomore Cara Cadigan was a difference-maker.
The women's soccer team finally encountered an opponent it couldn't overcome - luck.
With only one loss on the season and boasting a six-game winning streak, the women's soccer team has had several impressive victories to be proud of this season. But it wasn't until Saturday's 4-1 Homecoming win over Bowdoin that the team was finally satisfied with its play over the course of a full game.
In the 2006 version of tomorrow's Homecoming game, the Bowdoin Polar Bears hobbled to an early one-goal deficit and dropped their fifth game in a row.
It would have been easy for the women's soccer team to overlook yesterday's non-conference midweek game against Brandeis.
It looks a lot like 2005 in the world of Tufts women's soccer.
On Saturday, the Jumbos will meet Bates once again for their fourth NESCAC game of the season. Joining the two teams on the field will be the ghosts of two NESCAC Tournament games and an NCAA Regionals game all decided by a single goal.
After three consecutive victories, the women's soccer team came through again yesterday afternoon, this time in grand fashion against non-conference foe Babson.
The story is starting to get repetitive for the women's soccer team - but in a good way.
