It was a rollercoaster ride of a season for the football team this year, as the Jumbos endured a season of up-and-down play en route to a 4-4 record and a tie for fifth place in the NESCAC. The Jumbos' 2008 campaign concluded on Saturday when they fell to Middlebury on the road, 38-24.
With the Atlantic Coast Championships (ACCs) set to begin at Hobart and William Smith Colleges Saturday, this past weekend gave some sailors who don't usually attract the spotlight had the opportunity to do just that.
Just when it seemed that its record-breaking season might finally have come to an end this past weekend, following a failure to reach the NESCAC championship game and the right to compete for the league's automatic bid, the volleyball team saw its season revived with an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament.
0-41 Converted goals off penalty-corner chances scored by the field hockey team during the NESCAC semifinals and finals this weekend. The Jumbos failed to capitalize on these opportunities during 149 minutes of play. While eking out a 1-0 win in OT against Trinity, Tufts' failure on offense contributed decisively to its 1-0 loss in the title game at the hands of Bowdoin Sunday on Bello Field.
While the women's cross country team's top seven runners were gearing up for this weekend's NCAA New England Championships, the second seven were keeping busy at Saturday's ECAC Championships in Bristol, R.I.
The men's cross country team claimed 16th place at the ECAC Championships on Saturday in a race of 48 Div. III teams at Colt State Park in Bristol, R.I.
Although the field hockey team fell to the Bowdoin Polar Bears on Sunday at Bello Field, an at-large NCAA Tournament bid has possibly paved the road to redemption for the championship-minded Jumbos.
Goaltending wins hockey games. It's often as simple as that, but not every team can have a Roberto Luongo in net. For the rest of the league, goaltending is a shakier proposition. Some teams have their own institutions, like the New Jersey Devils' Martin Brodeur or the New York Rangers' Henrik Lundquist.
For the first time this season, a history-making opportunity evaded the field hockey team.
The way the field hockey team executed on its plethora of penalty-corner chances this weekend, you might not have had the slightest clue that the Jumbos were the ones with home-field advantage.
The NESCAC volleyball's reigning champion, the Williams Ephs, successfully defended their crown with a four-set win over rival Amherst on Sunday in Cousens Gym, with the two teams clashing in the title game for the third straight year.
While Tufts was busy hosting and participating in the conference field hockey and volleyball tournaments over the weekend, the men's and women's soccer tournaments played out in Middlebury, Vt. and Williamstown, Mass., respectively. The Amherst Lord Jeffs pulled out the upset over the hosting Panthers to take the men's crown while the Ephs successfully defended their home turf to win the women's title.
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They say good things come in threes, and after a regular season effort that saw the volleyball team post two victories over the defending champion Williams Ephs this fall, the Jumbos were ready to make good on the expression heading during Saturday's NESCAC semifinal battle with Williams.
In a season defined by its consistency in home-road splits, the football team suffered again, falling short in a tough 38-24 late-comeback road loss to the Middlebury Panthers.
The field hockey team's perfect season is about to be put to the ultimate test.
Talking about sports and politics in the same breath is crazy. Sports, as I've been told so many times, is just a game. When you hit a home run, you aren't changing the world. When a team plays for its playoff "life," no one is actually in danger. When your team loses, it hurts, but the pain isn't the kind of pain that changes you.
When the conference championship kicks off today in Cousens Gym, the volleyball team will have one thing on its mind: finishing what it began Sept. 19 when it won its first conference game.
