Last Saturday, Tufts took on Hamilton in its last guaranteed home game and celebrated its six seniors. The team’s most recent game was a crucial overtime victory at Wesleyan. Looking to carry this momentum, the Jumbos were eager to get back onto Bello Field.
Going into this weekend at 8–2, the Jumbos were barely holding on to their ranking in the top five of Division III women’s lacrosse. Starting the season at No. 2, Tufts has dropped to No. 4 after narrow losses to Amherst College in overtime and Middlebury in an NCAA Championship rematch. Tufts bounced back from its one-goal loss to Middlebury with a dominate 17–9 victory over Williams.
This past weekend, the Tufts women’s lacrosse team had a busy weekend on Bello Field with a 15–5 victory over NESCAC opponent Trinity College on Saturday and a 20–1 non-conference win over Colorado College on Sunday.
The Tufts women’s lacrosse team has entered this season with high expectations, both from themselves and from the lacrosse world, after an impressive season last year in which they became NESCAC champions and advanced to the NCAA championship game, where they ultimately lost to Middlebury College.
This past Saturday, Tufts’ campus was buzzing with the excitement of the NESCAC tournament. Both men’s and women’s soccer competed for conference titles on Bello field, volleyball kicked off its tournament run in Cousens Gymnasium and field hockey faced fourth-seeded Wesleyan.
On Tuesday, the field hockey team hit the road for its final game of the regular season against Bowdoin College. Entering the matchup at No. 1, Tufts held an 8–1 conference record compared to Bowdoin’s 5–4 mark. Both teams were among the three NESCAC squads to defeat reigning Division III Champion Middlebury College.
Last Saturday, Tufts field hockey, the then No. 7 overall team, took on then No. 5 Bates in a homecoming competition. Both teams went into the game with only one conference loss, with Tufts at No. 1 and Bates at No. 2 in the NESCAC.
The No. 7 Tufts field hockey team entered a busy weekend set on redemption after an overtime loss Wednesday to Babson College. On Saturday, Tufts returned home to Ounjian Field to face Hamilton before traveling to New London to take on Connecticut College.
Coming into the 2025 season as NESCAC Champions and NCAA runners-up, Tufts field hockey stepped onto the recently renovated Ounjian Field prepared to bring their game to the next level.
This past Saturday, the most anticipated matchup in Division III women’s lacrosse took place in Middlebury, Vt. as the then undefeated No. 2 Tufts traveled to take on the No. 1 Middlebury College. Winning the last three NCAA titles, Middlebury is the only obstacle standing in the way of Tufts dominating the division with an undefeated record this season and now 64-game win streak. The last time that the Middlebury team lost was May 8, 2022 against Tufts in the NESCAC Championship.
