Coming off of a momentous 9-0 shutout over the Wellesley Blue on Tuesday, the field hockey team now has its crosshairs set on the NESCAC's Colby Mules. Tufts is looking not only to preserve its undefeated record, but to hopefully record its second consecutive Homecoming victory.
Tufts' football team picked up its first win of the season at Bates on Saturday, riding a stifling defense to a 15-7 victory. While the victory was a good starting point for the 1-1 Jumbos, a tough test awaits them in their first home game, as the Bowdoin Polar Bears come to town looking to get back in the win column after a heartbreaking 13-12 loss to Amherst.
Heading into Tuesday's road match against the Wellesley Blue, the women's field hockey team had gone 753 days without dropping a regular season away game. With a sweeping 9-0 non-conference drubbing, the 8-0 Jumbos made it 754.
Looking back (October 6) | Minnesota Twins vs. Detroit Tigers One hundred sixty-two games wasn't enough to settle the score between the Twins and the Tigers for the AL Central Championship, so they needed a 163rd. And it turned out to be an instant classic.
In the world of international soccer, few countries command as much prestige as Argentina, the winner of two World Cups in 1978 and 1986. But as the qualifying rounds for next year's World Cup begin, Argentina is struggling to earn a spot in soccer's most prestigious event.
The men's soccer team has endured a rough start to the season so far, but the Jumbos hope that the energy of Homecoming will help them turn things around.
"I was definitely frustrated that I couldn't put a good set together and was really bummed the last couple races of the day where I could not read the current because it was going across the course in some places and then upwind in other places," he added.
When it comes to Major League Baseball's postseason, several crucial factors that differ from the regular season can make or break a team's World Series hopes.
According to Trinity football coach Jeff Devanney, "an onside kick is a little bit of execution and a little bit of luck."
This time last year, the New York Yankees were missing out on October baseball for the first time since Derek Jeter was a teenager. But it sure didn't take Joe Girardi's squad too long to turn things around.
The women's tennis team rolled through a pair of dual matches over the weekend unchallenged, cruising to dominant 9-0 wins over non-conference foes MIT and Babson. For their overwhelming victories, the Jumbos did not drop a set in any of their 12 singles matches and lost a grand total of four games across six doubles matches.
3 - Consecutive years with a one-game playoff to decide a postseason spot in Major League Baseball. The Minnesota Twins and the Detroit Tigers will play one final game tonight to decide who will be the American League Central champion. Last year, the Twins suffered a heartbreaking 1-0 loss to the Chicago White Sox in a playoff game, while the year before the Colorado Rockies used their tie-breaking victory over the San Diego Padres to propel themselves to the World Series.
Torrential rain forced Saturday's men's tennis match against MIT into the Gantcher Center, but the change of scenery did little to turn the tide in the Jumbos' favor. Tufts entered the match knowing it was in for a tough fight, and though it fell to the Engineers 5-4, the team left pleased with its overall performance.
After some early skepticism, two of the NFC's 4-0 teams have shown that they made some solid decisions during the offseason, and for that, they deserve some recognition.
Tufts' senior co-captain setter Dena Feiger became the second consecutive Jumbo to win the NESCAC women's volleyball Player of the Week award, following in the footsteps of classmate and fellow co-captain Brogie Helgeson.
he Tufts golf team had one number on its mind coming into this weekend: four. That would be a fourth-place finish or better, which would have ensured the team a spot in this spring's conference championship.
Saturday's contest would see one of two things broken: either the Jumbos' 23-game history of winning against Bates or their six-game, on-the-road losing streak. Fortunately for Tufts, it was the latter.
The women's field hockey team routed the Bates Bobcats 3-1 in Lewiston, Maine on Saturday for the Jumbos' seventh consecutive victory against the fledging NESCAC bottom-feeder.
Coming into last week with an 0-4-1 record, the men's soccer team knew that it needed to find a way to start winning games. The Jumbos came through with an overtime victory against Suffolk in a non-conference game on Tuesday and then took the pitch in Lewiston, Maine against Bates looking to start a streak.
You would think that after exacting revenge on both Williams and UMass Boston earlier in the week the Tufts' volleyball team would be out of scores to settle. Unfortunately for their next four adversaries, that was not the case.
