The second Fan the Fire event of the spring season will take place this Saturday, when the men's lacrosse and baseball teams host NESCAC foes on Bello and Huskins Fields, respectively.
The women's lacrosse team continued its winning ways yesterday, demolishing Wheaton by a final score of 13?6. The win, the Jumbos' third in a row, lifts the team's record to 7?3 and will certainly serve as a confidence?booster for Tufts heading into its crucial road showdown with No. 11 Amherst tomorrow.
Before Tuesday's home matchup against Endicott, the men's lacrosse team had played five games in a row on the road and, after dropping one in overtime to then?unranked Trinity, had fallen out of the USILA's top 10. But by Tuesday morning, the No. 7 Jumbos again found themselves among the Div. III elite and took to Bello Field that afternoon for the first time in over two weeks with a chance to do two things: confirm their status as national contenders, and reap revenge on the only non?conference team to beat them in last year's regular season.
Tomorrow at 1 p.m. on Bello Field, the seventh-ranked men's lacrosse team will host No. 13 Amherst in a highly anticipated matchup between two of the top squads in the NESCAC. The Daily breaks down the five keys to a Tufts victory:
When second?year Tufts graduate student SapnaBansil began training for the Boston Marathon this past September, she had never run a race in her life. She wasn't an athlete. She wasn't even exercising on a regular basis. Now, just seven months later, Bansil is ready to compete in one of the premier athletic events in the world.
In a weekend filled with regattas for both the co?ed and women's sailing teams, the Jumbos came away with a mixed bag of results.
33 - Runs scored by the visiting Trinity Bantams against the Tufts baseball team in a three-game NESCAC East series this weekend. After being swept, the Jumbos are now 12-6 overall. Tufts entered the weekend having given up double-digit runs just once this season - a 10-9 loss to No. 2 Christopher Newport - and had allowed an average of just 3.8 runs through 15 games. But the Bantams peppered Huskins Field with hits and runs, sweeping the weekend series in dominant fashion with scores of 18-5, 7-1 and 8-7.
Request an interview from Eric Weikert and the Georgia native will oblige in a manner befitting a true Southern gentleman. However, he will politely insist on a small caveat.
This past weekend, Tufts got the opportunity it was looking for: a head?to?head battle against Amherst, the nation's third?ranked team and Tufts' perennial NESCAC rival. But ultimately, the Lord Jeffs proved too much to handle, and the Jumbos fell short in the finals of the Nor'Easter Bowl at Wellesley to close out an otherwise successful weekend.
On Sunday, with the world's most prestigious green jacket on the line, two of the greatest shots ever hit at Augusta National told the story of the 2012 Masters Tournament. There was no Tiger Woods or Rory McIlroy among the leaders, and after four holes on Sunday even Phil Mickelson was on the outside looking in. But on a weekend that was supposed to feature the aforementioned players, the day belonged to Louis Oosthuizen, a smiley, 29?year?old, gap?toothed South African, and Bubba Watson, a General Lee driving, boy?band singing lefty who uses a pink driver. And boy, did they produce the spectacular.
