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Basketball

‘All gas, no brakes:’ Sofia Gonzalez leaves it on the Cousens floor

By Riley Daniel | May 15

When someone’s career profile reads off with top 20 spots in program history in 3-pointers made and points scored, two All-NESCAC seasons and two third team D3hoops.com All-Region 1 acknowledgements, one expects to hear about a journey that was as smooth as the drive down Route 66. Yet, for graduating senior Sofia Gonzalez, this road was windy and unpredictable, but it still left her with everything she could have wanted from her collegiate experience.

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Sports

Women’s lacrosse pitches perfect senior day, moves to 13–1

By Riley Daniel | April 22

It was a day that the Class of 2025 had long been waiting for. Their coronation as one of the winningest classes in Tufts program history was on full display, along with their other accomplishments: a NESCAC title, three NCAA Elite Eight appearances and six All-American nods. On a picture-perfect April afternoon, it looked almost too easy for the Jumbos.

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Sports

Jumbos thrash Cardinals 15–4, move to 11–0 on the season in best start since 2019

By Riley Daniel | April 10

Tufts women’s lacrosse returned to Bello Field on Saturday, coming off their most difficult result of the season — a scrappy 10–8 win on the road at Williams on April 2 — for a matchup with Wesleyan, a team that had been their nemesis in the previous two seasons. When the final whistle blew, No. 2 Tufts had avenged the demon, blowing out No. 6 Wesleyan 15–4. The Jumbos handed the Cardinals their first double-digit loss since the 2022 NESCAC tournament. This victory held extra meaning for the Jumbos, who were playing “Scooter’s Game” in honor of their late teammate Madie Nicpon, whose number they wear on the shoulders of their jerseys.

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Sports

Women’s lacrosse dominates DMV trip, rolls to 7–0 on the season

By Riley Daniel | March 28

With a trip down to the Mid-Atlantic to take on two ranked opponents, the Tufts women’s lacrosse team faced a new level of competition. Yet, three days later, the team would be flying home to Logan happy, having racked up two double-digit victories and established themselves as a clear threat to Middlebury’s chokehold on the Division III lacrosse world.

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Sports

No. 2 Tufts women’s lacrosse goes 3–0 to open 2025 campaign

By Riley Daniel | March 6

When a team that finished the 2024 season 16–4 –– making the Elite Eight for the fifth consecutive season –– returns many of its starters from the quarterfinal, the No. 2 ranking in the Intercollegiate Women’s Lacrosse Coaches Association’s poll seems appropriate. This weekend, the Jumbos more than proved their mettle by taking care of two opponents with double-digit victories to start their 2025 season.

Basketball
Basketball

Watt powers Jumbos to NESCAC semifinals

By Riley Daniel | February 25

With ten minutes left in their quarterfinal against Williams College, there was a question of which Jumbo would step up in crunch time. Would it be Scott Gyimesi, the junior who had already recorded 13 double-doubles during the season and 34 in less than three seasons? Perhaps it would be junior James Morakis, currently averaging over 17 points? Shockingly, it was an electric shooting performance sparked by the whiteout crowd from sophomore Zion Watt, who posted a career-high of 15 points, making four threes in the span of five minutes, sending the Jumbos on to an 80–70 win and earning them a trip to next weekend’s NESCAC semifinals at Wesleyan University.

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Sports

Men’s basketball opens NESCAC play with a bang

By Riley Daniel | January 15

When the Jumbos men’s basketball team returned to Medford, Mass. to resume their spring semester campaign on the Cousens Gymnasium floor on Friday night, memories of the struggles the first weekend of NESCAC play of the previous three years lingered as the Jumbos looked to sweep the opening weekend of conference play for the first time since 2019–20. When the clock hit triple zeroes on Saturday afternoon, the now No. 9 Tufts had taken care of business against Colby and Bowdoin, moving to 14–2 for the season for the first time since 2016–17.

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Sports

A game of chance sinks Tufts men’s soccer’s season

By Riley Daniel | November 21

Head coach Kyle Dezotell called it the best season he ever had. The record will say 12–0–6, an undefeated season. But after 110 minutes of enthralling play on the frigid terrain of Bello Field Sunday night, the number in the heads of the 2024 men’s soccer team will be 4–3. That was the score by which they lost the penalty shootout to the Buffalo State University Bengals, ending their NCAA campaign two weeks after their NESCAC title hopes were ended the same way by the Bowdoin College Polar Bears.

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Sports

Men’s soccer draws 0–0 with No. 3 Middlebury

By Riley Daniel | October 24

It was the game that everyone had circled on the calendar — a rematch of the NESCAC semifinal, where the Tufts Jumbos ended the Middlebury Panthers’ unbeaten streak in 2023. Both teams came in undefeated, and remain the only two without losses in the 10-team league. The Jumbos came into Saturday knowing that a win would clinch the NESCAC regular season title, with the Panthers needing at least a draw to keep their hopes of hosting a second consecutive NESCAC tournament. 

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