After junior first baseman Nick Falkson hit a walk-off, two-run homer in the bottom of the ninth in the final game, Tufts completed its sweep of Bates in a three-game series and clinched the NESCAC East Division pennant for the fourth consecutive season. The team faced Bates once on Friday followed ...
The Jumbos (18-12) concluded their 12-game road trip this weekend by traveling to Pickard Field in Brunswick, Maine for a three-game swing against their NESCAC East rivals, the Bowdoin Polar Bears (24-8). Although the Polar Bears entered the series on a 12-game winning streak, the Jumbos won two out ...
The Jumbos closed out the regular season on Wednesday with a 19-15 loss against the Bowdoin Polar Bears. Last Saturday, Tufts also lost to Wesleyan in a thrilling 17-16 game in which Wesleyan took the lead in the last 30 seconds of the game. Despite a four-game losing streak to end the regular season, ...
After taking two out of three games at home this past weekend against the Bowdoin Polar Bears (12-15), the Jumbos (22-5-1) are just a game behind the Bates Bobcats (13-8) in the NESCAC East Division. Additionally, Tufts is now ranked No. 10 in the country.In Sunday's series finale, the Jumbos fell ...
Tufts moved to 13-4 with a pair of victories over Trinity and Hamilton. These came on the back of a loss to Bowdoin and a victory over Amherst.With the Trinity result, the program records the most regular-season wins since the 2010-11 season, in which it recorded 13."I’m not really looking ...
On Saturday and Sunday, the men’s golf team competed in their last tournament of the spring season in the Wildcat Spring Invitational at Cranston Country Club in Cranston, R.I. The team played well over the course of the two days, and it was a proper send-off for senior tri-captain, Owen Elliott.On ...
The draft is TONIGHT. Holy sh*t am I excited. There are a lot of implications that come from the NFL draft: position battles, division superiority, Super Bowl frontrunners, etc. The most fun ones though, in my opinion, are the fantasy football implications. Every year, there are a handful of fantasy ...
Playing in just one game over the last week, an at-home conference match-up against No. 17 Wesleyan, No. 20 Tufts (9-5, 4-5 conference) fell in a lopsided affair with a score of 15-8. The Jumbos now sit at just seventh in the NESCAC less than a week before the conference tournament begins. Tufts began ...
Tufts traveled to Worcester, Mass. over the weekend to participate in the Bernie Brown Cup. There, the Jumbos faced off against boats from Clark, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), William Smith and Skidmore.For the past two years, the Jumbos' first varsity eight took first place at the Brown ...
Welcome to The Coin Toss, where I make bold, unlikely predictions about your favorite professional sports. This will be the last edition of the semester. Sad, I know.Over the past couple of weeks, I predicted four NBA playoff series winners. I had the Jazz over the Clippers, the Rockets over the Thunder, ...
Adding to what has already been an illustrious career at Tufts, senior tri-captain Luke O’Connor notched one of the best times in the nation in the 3,000 steeplechase at the first of two meets over the weekend.O’Connor put up the result on Friday in Princeton’s Larry Ellis Invitational. He competed ...
The last few weeks have been objectively difficult for the Tufts men’s tennis team. Yet as the losses to highly ranked opponents piled up, the Jumbos refused to succumb to negativity. Speaking after the team’s 6-3 loss to No. 9 Williams on April 16, junior Rohan Gupte reflected this optimism.“If ...
Hello friends, Sam Nowicki here. Welcome to my final column of the school year. Also, major props to anyone who caught the reference of the first sentence. Slide into my DMs, we’ll be good friends.This past week at the Valero Texas Open, Kevin Chappell broke through for his first career victory in ...
Tufts competed this weekend at the Trinity College Invitational, the team’s last regular-season meet before the start of NESCACs. The team was smaller than usual last weekend because many of the players took time off to rest.“The girls who did compete were able to hit some solid marks, and even ...
On April 15, Jackie Robinson Day across MLB, the Oakland A’s started players named Khris Davis, Ryon Healy and Jaff Decker. Weird, right? Inspired by this odd string of names and the Chicago White Sox's all-Garcia (Willy, Leury and Avisaíl) outfield on April 14, I’ve compiled an All-MLB weird ...
Kenyan Geoffrey Kirui set the pace in the 121st Boston Marathon, crossing the finish line with a time of 2:09:37. Fellow KenyanEdna Kiplagat claimed the women's title with a time of 2:21:52. At 37 years old, Kiplagat was the second oldest woman to ever win the marathon.While the titles are the biggest ...
Playing through the heart of its schedule, Tufts fell to a trio of top-ranked opponents. In the span of a week, Tufts dropped matches to No. 4 Middlebury, No. 8 Wesleyan and No. 9 Williams. The team did manage to rebound, defeating No. 28 Bates on April 20.“For a lot of us, it [was] our first experience ...
The key to a successful fantasy football draft is getting the highest value player for each of your picks. For example, in a draft last year, I got Ezekiel Elliott in the third round of one of my drafts. In case you aren’t aware, this is a CRIME. The man was a top-three back and should’ve been off ...
On Tuesday, Tufts competed in the Bentley Newport Classic at Newport National Golf Club in Middletown, Rhode Island. In the second-to-last tournament of the spring season, the Jumbos had a successful outing led by a number of strong performances by first-year players.First-year Sanjay Mukherjee had ...
After a record breaking 11 wins to start the season, the Jumbos succumbed to back-to-back defeats at the hands of the Bates Bobcats and the Amherst Mammoths.In a heartbreaking 19-18 loss on Tuesday, Tufts conceded their No. 2 rank to undefeated Bates, and now sit at No. 3 nationally. After being tied ...
