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.
With all of the success of the varsity teams this fall season, it can be extremely easy to overlook one of the most exciting and thriving squads on the Hill. The Tufts University Rugby Football Club (TURFC) finished up its best season in four years on Sunday, falling to defending national champion Plymouth State 24-10, but not before securing the East Conference Championship of the New England Rugby Football Union.
Coming off its final race of the fall season before heading into winter offseason training, the women's crew picked up a pair of top-10 finishes at the Head of the Fish Regatta in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. on Sunday.
After running off three consecutive regional victories, the women's rugby team was riding high entering its opening-round playoff matchup against Bryant University Sunday.
The football team was well aware of the Lord Jeffs' dominant front seven heading into Saturday's game.
