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Softball sweeps Bowdoin in opening NESCAC Series

By Steven Landry | April 7

After losing in extra innings to Bowdoin last year, the Tufts softball team seized its revenge in three games against the Polar Bears this weekend.

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Softball clinches NESCAC Championship bid with wins over Wesleyan, Bates

By Isaac Karp | April 28

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Tufts softball returns, excites with doubleheader split at Middlebury

By Isaac Karp | April 6

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Top 10 moments of 2018–19 year

By Tufts Daily Sports Staff | May 19

It has been a stellar year for sports at Tufts. Through the fall and winter of the 2018–19 season, Tufts stands at No. 8 in the Learfield IMG College Director's Cup competition, which ranks all Div. III schools by their sporting success across all varsity programs. With numerous spring sports ...

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Softball beats Colby, clinches NESCAC East pennant on Senior Day

By Henry Molot | April 22

The Tufts softball team continued its regional domination with three wins over the Colby White Mules to secure the NESCAC East pennant for the regular season. In the doubleheader on Friday, the Jumbos honored their seniors for Senior Day in the team's final home action of the year against NESCAC ...

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Behind Van Meter's perfect game, softball wins 3 of 5 against Bowdoin, Babson

By Henry Molot | April 12

The unranked Tufts softball team (20–5) played five games over just as many days, winning three games against Babson College and conference rival Bowdoin. The team won one of two of its two-game day against crosstown rival Babson on Wednesday in Wellesley, Mass., and over the weekend, Tufts battled ...

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Tufts earns best-ever fourth place in 2015-2016 Learfield Sports Directors' Cup

By Maclyn Senear | August 31

Though the 2015-16 athletic year may have lacked the excitement of a national championship win, Tufts quietly had one of the best years in the history of its athletics programs last year. The Jumbos finally broke into the top five in the Learfield Sports Directors’ Cup Div. III standings, which were ...

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Softball unable to extend NESCAC and NCAA title streaks

By Isabel Banta | May 22

Tufts softball's season ended on May 15, with a 4-2 loss to WPI in the NCAA tournament's regional championship round. After three consecutive NCAA titles, the early exit was disappointing for coach Cheryl Milligan's talent-packed team. Tufts also fell to Williams in the final game of the ...

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Softball sets sights on fifth straight NESCAC title

By Isabel Banta | May 1

Softball already locked up a perfect season in the NESCAC East and the No. 1 seed heading into the playoffs with a sweep of Bates last weekend, but this Saturday, they continued to dominate the NESCAC with a shutout sweep of a doubleheader against Hamilton at home to celebrate Senior Day. Hamilton ...

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Jumbo bats heat up as softball finishes another perfect season in NESCAC East

By Isabel Banta | April 28

Tufts softball won six out of seven games over the past nine days, including a sweep of Bates over the weekend to finish the season undefeated in the NESCAC East, further demonstrating it deserves the division's No.1 seed heading into the playoffs. The stretch also included a sweep of a doubleheader ...

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Tufts sweeps Trinity to stay undefeated in NESCAC East

By Isabel Banta | April 20

Over the weekend, Tufts swept a three-game series at home against NESCAC East foe Trinity to stay undefeated within division play and atop its division, with just one more division series against Bates remaining before the conference playoffs next month. The team's winning-streak of nine games, ...

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After troubled start to season, Jumbos get back to impressive form

By Isabel Banta | April 14

The softball team got back to its usual style of play this weekend, sweeping a three-game series at Colby from Friday to Saturday and then returning home to sweep a doubleheader against Bowdoin on Sunday. Playing five games over three days seemed to have little effect on the team's stamina ...

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Softball wins first NESCAC East game, but off to troubled start in 2016

By Isabel Banta | April 7

This past week, the softball team dropped two games in a home doubleheader against Williams before recovering with a win against Bowdoin in a tight NESCAC East battle. The Jumbos came away with a 7-5 win over the Bowdoin Polar Bears on Friday in their first and only conference game so far, while ...

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Softball opens season with tough spring break trip

By Isabel Banta | March 29

Tufts softball is 7-4 to start off the 2016 season after finishing its annual spring break trip to Clermont, Florida, with a relatively disappointing start for the three-time consecutive NCAA Div. III national champions who went undefeated last season. The four losses, the most the team has suffered ...

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Tufts athletics gears up for packed spring break

By Maclyn Senear | March 17

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 ...

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Softball looks to stay atop the nation in 2016

By Soven Bery | March 17

With the 2016 season about to start, Tufts softball is getting very close to cementing its legacy as one of the most successful programs in the history of college athletics. As back-to-back-to-back Div. III national champions, softball is undoubtedly Tufts' current strongest athletics team, though ...

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Tufts becomes first Div. III softball team to three-peat at NCAAs

By Alison Kuah | September 4

The Tufts softball team became the first Div. III team to three-peat at the NCAAs after posting a 51-0 record during their 2015 season.Tufts finished their first-ever undefeated regular season with a double-header victory on April 26 against Wheaton (Mass.). The team not only surpassed their previous 35-game ...

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Jumbos finish with undefeated regular season record

By Alison Kuah | April 26

The softball team capped off its undefeated regular season this past weekend with a double-header against Wheaton (Mass.) to bring its record to 38-0, surpassing the 35-game win streak the team reached in 2009. The past two national title-winning seasons (in 2014 and 2013) saw the Jumbos drop three ...

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Jumbos remain undefeated at 33-0

By Alison Kuah | April 23

In 1995, when coach Cheryl Milligan was a player on Tufts' softball team, she and her teammates finished the season with what was then a record-breaking 31 wins. Twenty years later, with five games left to play in their regular season, the Jumbos have already surpassed that milestone with 33 ...

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Milligan: 'Tufts was always going to be a great place to coach'

By Alison Kuah | April 16

Cheryl Milligan’s first softball coach, despite not teaching her much about the game at the tender age of seven, kick-started her interest in softball — a game that would eventually become a life-long passion.“My coach when I was a kid was just a lot of fun,” Milligan said. “He didn’t ...