A late push was not enough for the women's lacrosse team on Sunday, as the squad was eliminated from the NESCAC Tournament by Amherst, 11−9. Playing on the road against a hot Lord Jeffs team that was coming off a win against NESCAC top seed Trinity, the Jumbos were held to single−digit scoring for only the fourth time all season.
Unlike in most sports, a track and field team cannot be evaluated by its win−loss record. In fact, one can barely even assess a team by how it performs in the opening weeks of the season. Instead, the way to judge a team is by how it finishes a season, when the championship meets roll around.
The NESCAC Tournament will start on Sunday — but that is about the only thing that is certain in the world of NESCAC men's lacrosse this season.
The women's lacrosse team faces Bowdoin this afternoon looking to not only end the regular season on a high note, but to secure a first−round home game in the NESCAC tournament that begins on Sunday.
In recent years, the softball team has made a habit out of hammering Colby. The Jumbos have won nine straight games over the Mules, none of which has been decided by less than six runs. Six of the games were ended by the mercy rule, and Colby has only scored more than one run in a game once during the streak.
Coming off a 19−5 loss, the baseball team bounced back in a big way.
The golf team wasn't ready to call its spring season over after a 14th place finish in the Worcester State Invitational.
0.9 - The Cleveland Indians' rating on Neilsen's "Sentiment Scale," making the squad the most hated team in the MLB. According to the scale, which uses various keywords to find out whether people have positive, negative or neutral reactions to different brands and products, the Indians registered a 0.9, two-tenths in front of the second-most hated team, the Boston Red Sox. The Yankees rang in fifth, while the Reds and the Astros were a surprise third and fourth, respectively. No squad registered a negative on the-five-to negative five scale.
On April 10, New York Yankees pitcher CC Sabathia flirted with baseball immortality, holding the Tampa Bay Rays hitless through 7.2 innings before Kelly Shoppach broke up his run at history.
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The words are well known in baseball circles. At the time, they seemed genuine. Now, they are simply infamous:
Editor's Note: Evan Cooper is a sophomore, a sports editor for the Daily and an aspiring professional cyclist. He races for the Tufts Cycling Team and for the elite amateur squad Team Ora presented by Independent Fabrication. This series will chronicle his season as he tries to make racing into more than just a hobby.
Out West, the NBA Playoffs have been filled with surprises. The seventh-seeded San Antonio Spurs are up three games to one on the Dallas Mavericks, and the fifth-seeded Utah Jazz are up on the dynamic Denver Nuggets, 3-1. The East has been exciting, but the results have turned out more or less as expected. The Orlando Magic just completed a four-game sweep of the Charlotte Bobcats on Monday and will face the winner of the Hawks-Bucks series.
Last week, the co-ed sailing team earned a national semifinals berth thanks to a hard-fought regatta at Conn. College. On Saturday, less than 60 miles away, the women's team followed suit, securing a spot in the upcoming ICSA National Championship semifinals with a fifth-place finish out of 13 teams at the New England Championships on the water in Providence, R.I.
At the end of the NESCAC track and field season, the Jumbos have proven why they are one of the premier programs in the region. Following the conference championships at the Ellis Oval and Dussault Track this past Saturday, the NESCAC Track & Field All-Conference Teams were announced, and Tufts collected two prestigious awards.
In this past weekend's third-annual Spirit Regatta on the Malden River, the women's crew team may have not taken home the Cup, but solid wins against top-tier opponents across all events made it a successful weekend before New Englands on Saturday.
While it is a common cliché to say that "softball is a game of inches," those watching Tufts' Monday afternoon game against Trinity saw just how true the saying really is.
There are two sides to every story. Therefore, one team cannot emerge unless it is at the expense of another. And that, in a nutshell, is the NBA playoffs.
The men's tennis team continued its busy schedule last week with matches against Wheaton College on Tuesday and Trinity College on Thursday. The Jumbos got back to their winning ways against Wheaton at the Voute Courts, drubbing the Lyons 9−0. On Thursday, however, the Jumbos were given a dose of reality when they made the trip south to Hartford to play against NESCAC rival Trinity, losing 8−1.
