The NESCAC Championships took place at Trinity on Saturday, where the Tufts women's track and field team put on a strong performance, finishing second overall. This is an improvement from last year's NESCAC tournament at Bowdoin, where the team finished in sixth place.The Jumbos earned a total ...
Following a strong showing in the spring season, the Tufts men's track and field team traveled to Trinity on Saturday to compete in the NESCAC championship meet.The team finished third in the event with 137 points, three behind second-place Williams' 140.Middlebury won the event by a considerable ...
Three days after defeating Bowdoin 11–10 to earn the third seed in the NESCAC tournament, the No. 8 Tufts women’s lacrosse team fell to sixth-seeded Trinity 12–10 in the quarterfinal round on Saturday.The Jumbos hosted the No. 11 Bantams (11–5, 6–4 NESCAC) under sunny skies at Bello Field ...
The Tufts golf team competed in its penultimate tournament of the season over the weekend.The Jumbos traveled to Cranston, R.I. to compete in the Wildcat Spring Invitational, where they finished in sixth place out of 19 competing teams.Husson University won the tournament, coming in with a total ...
Following its three-game sweep of Colby on April 20–21, Tufts baseball suffered a setback, falling at home to UMass Dartmouth, Suffolk and Endicott.After Endicott (20–11) opened a 3–0 lead in the first inning on Thursday, Tufts responded with three runs of its own in the bottom of the third.Senior ...
Having entered the week on top of the NESCAC East division, the No. 21 Tufts softball team posted a 3–1 stretch, starting with a 15–0 demolition of Pine Manor on Friday, followed by two massive wins at then-No. 11 Amherst over the weekend. However, he Jumbos' eight-game winning streak, ...
The No. 15 Tufts men’s tennis team registered a 2–1 record on the road this weekend.Tufts fell 7–2 to No. 24 Bates in a high-stakes NESCAC matchup on Friday.Yet, the Jumbos fired back in two non-conference contests, routing Rensselaer 6–3 on Saturday and subduing Skidmore by the same scoreline ...
The Tufts sailing teams competed in a staggering seven regattas over the weekend, including two conference championship regattas.The top women’s squad finished 11th at the New England Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association (NEISA) Championship in New London, Conn.Meanwhile, the co-ed team prepared for ...
The short answer, despite the usual media hype in England, is: No, not the Three Lions.We're slightly less than two months out from the opening game of the 2018 FIFA World Cup, when hosts Russia play Saudi Arabia on June 14 in Moscow.Ultimately, you'd expect most of the usual suspects to make ...
The Tufts men's track team split up across two competitions over the weekend.A handful of athletes competed at Friday's Larry Ellis Invitational at Princeton University in Princeton, N.J., while the others competed at the Sunshine Classic, which Tufts hosted at Dussault Track on Saturday.The ...
Social media has consumed a lot of American culture (and the culture of the world) within a time. These days, we see a lot of news about social media coming up on our Facebook feeds, ironically enough. Am I the only one who has seen a study about how much time social media takes up, which I read as ...
The No. 5 Tufts men’s lacrosse team continued its excellent 2018 campaign with another conference win on Saturday, defeating Middlebury (8–6, 4–5 NESCAC) on the road, 13–10. Like in their victory over the Bates Bobcats earlier in the week, the Jumbos relied on an impressive comeback to ...
Under an appropriately bright blue sky, the Tufts women’s track and field team took first place at the third annual Tufts Sunshine Classic on Saturday. The Jumbos won 13 events on Clarence “Ding” Dussault Track in their final tuneup before this weekend’s NESCAC Championships.Junior Kelsey ...
The NBA playoffs are in full swing, and the fans of the 16 teams still in the mix get to hope and pray that somehow this could be their year. For the rest of us fans from teams on the outside looking in, we get to read a million articles about mock drafts and NBA free agency and hope and pray that ...
Zlatan Ibrahimovic's late arrival to the MLS — it’s been a move more than three years in the making — took just over 48 hours to reverberate around the U.S. sports landscape. He flew into LA on a Thursday, participated in a light training session that drew more press than a newborn panda ...
The Tufts Athletics Department hosted its first-ever Hall of Fame ceremony on Saturday, in front of over 300 current and former athletes, coaches and administrators packed into Cousens Gymnasium. The night was emceed by radio host and two-time Massachusetts Sportswriter of the Year Tony Massarotti ...
The sun shone down on the Bello Field turf on Saturday afternoon, while the temperature hovered in the mid-50s — perfect conditions for a lacrosse game. No. 6 Tufts (11–3, 7–2 NESCAC) played host to No. 8 Middlebury (12–2, 8–1 NESCAC) in a contest with real ramifications for conference tournament ...
After 68 years, the 1950 Tufts baseball team — participants in the College World Series (CWS) in Omaha, Neb. that June — will be immortalized. The team will be part of the inaugural class inducted into the new Tufts Athletics Hall of Fame on Saturday evening.Third baseman Ed Schluntz (A '50), ...
Over the weekend, the Tufts baseball team (12–10, 3–3 NESCAC) faced Bowdoin in its second conference series of the season, winning the set 2–1.The Jumbos' victories sandwiched a tight 4–3 loss to the host Polar Bears (11–12, 4–5 NESCAC).Entering the final game of the series — ...
With the end of the regular season in sight, the No. 6 Tufts women's lacrosse team (11–2, 7–1 NESCAC) recently faced off against some of its toughest opponents so far.After falling to NESCAC rival Amherst on Saturday, Tufts quickly bounced back to best another league opponent, Bates, on ...
