The field hockey team earned a 4-3 upset win over No. 1 Bowdoin in Brunswick, Maine on Friday evening to complete a perfect 14-0 regular season and record one of the greatest wins by any Tufts team in school history. The Jumbos followed by winning their NESCAC Tournament opener against Colby 5-1 yesterday on Bello Field. A look inside the numbers:
Knowing it will have to upset at least one regional foe at the Nov. 15 New England Championships to earn a team bid to Nationals, the women's cross country squad entered Saturday's NESCAC Championships, hosted by Bates, looking to do just that.
Before the football team's Sept. 20 season opener against Wesleyan, coach Bill Samko promised that his top two quarterbacks, juniors Anthony Fucillo and Tom McManama, would both see action. And when McManama failed to take one snap during Tufts' contest against the Cardinals, Samko stressed that the team's win was far more important than individuals' playing time.
For the second straight season, the NESCAC Tournament came down to penalty kicks for the women's soccer team. And for the second year, Bowdoin ended Tufts' conference playoff run prematurely with a 4-2 edge in the shootout.
After polishing off its final two matches against league rivals Wesleyan and Trinity, the volleyball team secured the NESCAC regular-season title and the right to host the NESCAC Tournament with an unblemished 10-0 conference record.
It was a close race at the top, and mere seconds made all the difference for the men's cross country team's frontrunners at Saturday's NESCAC Championship race, hosted by Bates.
A week ago, the men's soccer team traveled to Trinity with hopes of breaking away from the bottom of the NESCAC standings and ensuring itself a spot in the conference playoffs. But the Jumbos' offense proved anemic, and they fell to the Bantams 1-0 as sophomore Peter Marlette scored the game-winning goal 10 minutes into overtime.
At last year's NESCAC Championships, the Colby Mules stunned the women's cross country team, edging it by a point to push the Jumbos into sixth place.
As the NCAA New England Championships approach, the men's cross country team will take on a number of regional foes when it goes for its fifth Nationals berth in six years.
There's one final hurdle standing between the field hockey team and a perfect regular season: the No. 1 team in the nation.
After a smooth straight-set victory over the Worcester State Lancers last night, the volleyball team heads to Wesleyan tomorrow night for a match that will help determine whether the Jumbos earn the right to the NESCAC Tournament. With the 25-14, 25-13, 25-15 thrashing, the Jumbos improved to 25-2 overall on the season.
Every season, Commissioner Gary Bettman-inspired rumblings start again: We need to increase scoring! In order to attract more fans, we need to get some more excitement, and goals sure are exciting. Let's get some more!
The fall crew season is not a time for perfection; instead, it is a time for trying new things, making mistakes and working out the kinks.
When the New Orleans Saints and the San Diego Chargers take the field at Wembley Stadium in London on Sunday during a relatively uneventful week in the NFL, the headlines should have surrounded the invasion of American football onto the Queen's soil. Instead, the Saints were imbedded in controversy, as three failed drug tests marred an otherwise stellar week for the team.
Following its dramatic overtime win over Trinity Saturday afternoon, the 13-0 field hockey team jumped to No. 4 in the latest National Field Hockey Coaches Association (NFHCA) national poll, released yesterday. Tufts picked up as many first-place votes (eight) as NESCAC rival and defending national champion Bowdoin, which reclaimed the No. 1 spot in the poll after spending one week at No. 2.
After scoring four or more goals in seven of eight games to open the season, opponents had held the field hockey team to three goals or fewer in each of its past four contests. Yesterday afternoon's 6-1 victory over the Endicott Gulls changed that.
For a squad that predicates its success on the depth of its roster, the sailing team's results this weekend were a little more mixed than it had hoped.
With a lead at home and their ace on the mound, the Philadelphia Phillies were drawing closer and closer to the reality of their first World Series title since 1980. That is, until the rain started.
After a five-month wait, Zydrunas Ilgauskas and Kendrick Perkins are set to tip things off in a rematch of last May's epic seven-game Eastern Conference Finals as the Boston Celtics and Cleveland Cavaliers, two of the best teams in the East, take the floor at the TD Banknorth Garden at 8 p.m. tonight.
