Finishing the regular season on a double overtime draw with No. 2 seed Bowdoin and a 1–0 victory over Williams, Tufts enters the NESCAC tournament as the No. 1 seed. The team has not conceded a single goal in seven games, thanks to the team's impenetrable defensive mentality and the outstanding ...
This past weekend, Tufts picked up a trio of wins, beating MIT, Babson and Springfield at the New England Challenge tournament at Williams College.With their wins over the weekend, the Jumbos improved to 18–5 overall and remain first in the NESCAC with an 8–0 conference record.They stand one game ...
The NBA is back, bringing a new season of dunks, blocks and stardom. In fact, this looks like more talented basketball than I have seen in a while (see Giannis Antetokounmpo). It is nearly impossible to talk about the NBA, however, without talking about its most hated topic: superteams.Superteams are ...
At Tufts, there’s something for everyone. Anyone can find a passion to pursue and a community of like-minded people to share that passion with. A big piece of that, of course, is within the athletics department, where teams share familial bonds as they compete against the best that the NESCAC and ...
The Tufts men's and women’s crew teams competed at the 53rd Head of the Charles Regatta on Sunday. The Jumbos competed in the men’s collegiate four, eight and the Director’s Challenge, and in the women’s collegiate eight and the Director’s Challenge.Though neither team placed in the top ...
It was a busy weekend for both of Tufts' sailing teams. The Jumbos were deployed at six different races, including the Fall Foliage, the NEISA Southern Seven, the Mrs. Hurst Bowl, the Sherman Hoyt Trophy, the Oberg Trophy and the Central Series. It was a mostly successful weekend for the team. Coach ...
Spurs delivered their strongest statement yet with a resounding 4–1 victory over Liverpool this past weekend. Could this finally be Spurs' year? It's unlikely, given just how good Manchester City looks this year. In true Spurs fashion, I think they'd put pressure on City and come really ...
After a tough 1–0 loss to Bates on Oct. 14, the No. 6 Tufts field hockey team bounced back with two promising wins over Wellesley and No. 7 Williams on Thursday and Saturday, respectively. Visiting Wellesley's home turf for the first time since a 1–0 loss two years ago, the team put together a ...
In September of 2006, Michel Sablon, Belgian soccer’s newly appointed technical director, was putting the finishing touches on his blueprint for Belgium soccer’s revolution. Only eight years later, at the 2014 World Cup, Belgium was positioned as the fifth-best team going into the tournament, according ...
The Jumbos got the ball back with 2:22 left in the half, and a 27-yard connection between McDonald and Dolan, followed by a 14-yard strike to junior wide receiver Frank Roche, set up a first and goal for Tufts. McDonald ran the ball to the 2-yard line and first-year running back Mike Pedrini broke the plane to earn Tufts the lead. A botched snap bounced behind Alswanger, who quickly recovered the ball and threw a pass into the end zone that fell incomplete, saving a potential Williams recover and two-point conversion.
Tufts women’s soccer traveled to Williamstown, Mass. on Saturday to face undefeated NESCAC powerhouse Williams.This was an especially important match up for the Jumbos, who have struggled against the Ephs in recent years, with their last victory coming in 2006. Heading into the weekend, Tufts was ...
Athletics have transformed since their inception. In Greece, the first Olympic Games was held in 760 B.C. and consisted of a simple footrace. Later the traditional field events of discus, javelin and jumping were added along with an early predecessor of wrestling called pankration. Among the Greek city-states, ...
Victories over Bates and Keene State afford Tufts a five-game winning streak as the team maintains its No. 1 position in the NESCAC. The Jumbos defense has rendered them practically unstoppable, as they have yet to concede a goal in five games and boast a 0.08 goals against average after giving up ...
Tufts football will travel to Williamstown, Mass. for a week six matchup with the Williams Ephs on Saturday.The Jumbos' 3–2 record puts them in sixth place in the NESCAC. The Ephs, at 4–1, are in a four-way tie for second place with the Amherst Mammoths, Middlebury Panthers and Wesleyan ...
The Tufts women's and men's cross country teams wrapped up an ostensibly successful weekend at Conn. College with second and seventh place finishes, respectively. By some measures, however, the Jumbos failed to meet their high standards, providing a source of motivation for the final month ...
The Tufts women's tennis team competed in its final match of the fall season this weekend, traveling up to Brunswick, Maine for the Bowdoin Invitational. The Jumbos fought hard in both individual and doubles matches against various regional opponents, winning a total of 26 matches.In the round-robin ...
At home on Kraft Field, the Jumbos (7–3–3 overall, 5–1–2 NESCAC) fell 1–0 to the Lesley Lynx (11–2–2 overall) in a closely contested non conference matchup on Tuesday. The game was locked dead even until Lesley’s junior forward Samantha Bessey scored the lone goal in the eighth minute ...
With all of the serious topics I have written about in the past few weeks, I think it is finally time to write about one of the biggest, cutest, nicest smile-bringers in sports: waving to the University of Iowa Children’s Hospital.Every game at the end of the first quarter, the University of Iowa ...
Tufts competed in MIT’s Fall Invitational on Oct. 13–15, taking on NESCAC rivals and various Div. III teams from the Northeast.The doubles team of senior tri-captain Benjamin Battle and sophomore Zach Shaff made an impressive run, advancing to the quarterfinals of the tournament. Battle and Shaff ...
Both men’s and women’s crew competed at the Hadley Chase, a newly created meet, on Saturday. Hosted by UMass Amherst on the Connecticut River, the regatta featured some tough competition and served as a good way for both teams to prepare for next week’s Head of the Charles Regatta, one of the ...
