As most Tufts students leave campus for spring break, Tufts sports teams will be busy preparing for the spring season over the next week.Women's basketball headlines this weekend as the team made it back to the NCAA Div. III Championship Final Four for the third straight year. The Jumbos are in ...
On the verge of a new season, the baseball team is ready to shake off last year's disappointing performance in the NESCAC tournament as it sits in a strong position to get back to the postseason and claim its first NESCAC title since 2011. The Jumbos are about to kick off the season in full swing ...
Baseball is boring. Most of the time, the players are stationary: waiting around as the pitcher rubs the ball, removes and replaces his hat, tugs on his belt and peers in towards the catcher’s calloused fingers for a sign. There are too many commercials, too many pitching changes, too many strikeouts. ...
Tufts moved one step closer to the postseason this weekend with a strong series against Colby and a convincing win at home over UMass Dartmouth on Monday. The Jumbos pounded the Mules 9-0 on Friday in Waterville, Maine before dropping the second game on Saturday 6-4. They bounced back Saturday night ...
With more than a month of baseball now in the books, the Jumbos are in the midst of another stellar season. Tufts won four of five over the past week, improving its overall record to 19-5 and taking sole possession of first place in the NESCAC East.Tufts trounced Keene State 18-6 in its most recent ...
Continuing its strong first half of the season into April, Tufts swept a doubleheader against Brandeis in Waltham on Saturday to extend its winning streak to six games — its longest of the season so far. The Jumbos held on against a Judges comeback to take game one 5-4 before lighting up multiple ...
The baseball team continued to roll after storming out to an 8-3 start over spring break, improving its record to 13-4 on the year with wins over Keene State yesterday and Plymouth State on Wednesday.The Tufts offense, which averaged nearly 11 runs per game during its torrid swing through North Carolina ...
Baseball is a beautiful game, but the beginning of baseball season is never pretty. Hitters are still finding their timing, pitchers are still searching for their command and defense tends to be sloppy. That's why major league baseball teams -- made up of the best ballplayers on the planet -- need ...
Coming off a 34-9 season and its third NCAA national tournament appearance in five years, the baseball team is a powerhouse poised for another terrific season. Coach John Casey, now in his 32nd season managing his alma mater, has high hopes for this spring."Last year is last year; this is a new ...
In the New York Times last week, writer Jon Ronson chronicled the swift demise of a woman named Justine Sacco at the hands of a ruthless Twitter mob. With each successive tableau, Sacco makes her way gradually from antagonist to victim, her situation reaching a nadir, perhaps, when she is disowned ...
After wrapping up one of its better seasons in recent memory on Thursday with a loss against the University of New Hampshire (UNH), the club baseball team is now looking ahead to the fall with hopes of both improving and expanding.
After giving up six runs in three?plus innings on March 23 against Christopher Newport, senior Kevin Gilchrist saw his ERA balloon to 7.71. Just like that, one of the Jumbos' aces from last year had seemingly disappeared from the starting rotation.
In its first 10 games, the baseball team has scored more first?inning runs than it did all last season. If this seems like a surprise to some of the Jumbos, you'll have to forgive them. They've been too busy opening 2012 on a blistering pace.
While friends and classmates will be partying at Spring Fling Saturday on the President's Lawn, the baseball team will be keenly focused on working toward its second consecutive NESCAC East division title at Huskins Field.
Heading into Friday's contest at Campus Field in Hartford, Conn., the baseball team sits in a tie with Trinity atop the NESCAC East standings. But by the time the last out is recorded on Sunday, only one of these squads will retain first place.
