The women's track and field team entered the NESCAC Championships this Saturday at Bates College ready to clean house. They did just that, delivering a total of six wins and five additional top-three finishes in the 21-event, 10-team meet en route to a second-place finish.
Having already clinched the number one seed in the NESCAC East, the No. 8 Jumbos can now rest up, reflect on an outstanding regular season and make sure it heads into the upcoming NESCAC playoffs as fresh and healthy as can be. At least, that's what one might expect.
Heading into Wednesday night's regular season finale against No. 13 Bowdoin, the No. 5 men's lacrosse team was determined to avoid a repeat of 2011. Like this year, the Jumbos had just locked up the No. 1 spot in the NESCAC last April when they traveled to Brunswick, Maine, and were upended 15-9 by the Polar Bears.
This weekend in Maine, the baseball team's destiny will be decided in a three-game series against Bowdoin. The Jumbos, winners of the past two NESCAC championships, must win two of three games against the Polar Bears to move into second place in the NESCAC East division and earn a berth into the conference tournament.
More than any other game this season, the No. 14 women's lacrosse team's regular season finale with No. 13 Bowdoin had all the makings of an extremely tight contest. Not only were the teams tied for fifth in the NESCAC and separated by one spot in the national rankings, but they also entered with very similar statistics.
When Steve Haladyna walked into Cousens Gym, he was immediately struck by the court's style. The double staircase ascending to the locker rooms, the balconies overlooking the hardwood, it all felt so old-fashioned.
This past weekend marked a crucial moment for Tufts' sailing teams, providing their last opportunity of the season to sail in regattas before the playoffs get underway.
Mired in a four?match losing streak and coming off a disheartening loss to Trinity, the men's tennis team knew it couldn't let another one slip through the cracks. The team entered its Monday afternoon matchup with Brandeis intent on ending that streak and rectifying the recent swoon.
On the night of Tuesday, April 10, the lights shone bright upon Bello Field. As the stars came out and the final seconds ticked off the clock in Tufts' 11?5 defeat of Endicott, the Jumbos rushed the field and collapsed into a dog pile in front of the cage. In the middle of the scrum was backup goalie Mike "Cheese" Maggiore, a sophomore who had just seen his first minutes of collegiate play.
Plain and simple, Los Angeles Lakers head coach Mike Brown needs to monitor what's in the water at the Staples Center. Granted, the Bynum?Barea encounter during last year's playoffs did not occur during his tenure, but it must say something about the Lakers - admittedly rather unjustly - that the two most heinous on?court incidents of the past two seasons have involved their players.
After wrapping up one of its better seasons in recent memory on Thursday with a loss against the University of New Hampshire (UNH), the club baseball team is now looking ahead to the fall with hopes of both improving and expanding.
After rising as high as first and falling as low as seventh in the NESCAC standings this season, the No. 14 women's lacrosse team finally seems to have found a happy medium.
The men's track and field team ended its regular season with strong performances at MIT and Princeton this past weekend, and is now in solid position for the NESCAC Championships coming up on Saturday.
On Saturday, the No. 5 men's lacrosse team earned its seventh consecutive victory, beating NESCAC rival Wesleyan, 10-6. Meanwhile, Trinity fell to Hamilton, allowing Tufts to lock up the conference's top spot for the second year in a row, securing home-field advantage throughout the NESCAC tournament, which begins this weekend.
A wise, veteran sports journalist once told me that "sports are recession-proof." Even in times of economic crisis, sports remain a popular oasis for Americans. In this regard, sports are phenomena of society that reflect our love of leisure and our capitalistic nature. Yet, sports are becoming increasingly synonymous with one more concept: sex.
This past weekend, the women's track and field team competed in its final regular season meet at the MIT Spring Invitational, hoping to bolster its qualifying marks before the championship season begins. The team claimed two individual event victories, earned several other top-three finishes and left feeling ready for the upcoming NESCAC Championships.
