When you look at the best in Region 1, there are the usual suspects. No. 17 Wheaton (Mass.) Lyons and the Tufts Jumbos. The leaders of these two conferences has dominated the likes of the the GNAC or the NAC. These days, the GNAC and NAC are on the up swing adding top teams who needed a home after the NEAC split up at the end of the 2023 season.
Sophomore hurler Connor Podeszwa twirled a gem in the 2023 NESCAC championship game, and the offense scored in each of the first seven innings in rolling to their conference-leading seventh all-time NESCAC title.
Tufts doubled up Eastern Nazarene, 6-3 on Tuesday in a key regional contest. In Atlanta, Emory slugged their way to a big win over LaGrange as they pad their resume for a possible at-large bid to the NCAA Playoffs.
The sporting event of the day in Bean Town is the Boston Marathon but several Boston area teams got in games. Tufts bounced back from a weekend of losses and Westfield State earned a MASCAC win over MCLA.
Tufts escaped with a 5-4 win over Washington and Lee in ten innings. In Ohio, Marietta, Muskingum and Ohio Northern scored 20+ runs in their wins on Thursday.
The new look of the Division 3 landscape certainly changes things in New England, as one of the nation’s most robust regions has been split into two.....more
Paul Svagdis, a 1993 Tufts graduate who has been head baseball coach at Azusa Pacific University since 2002, will return to his alma mater as the new head coach of the Jumbo program.
John Casey, whose contributions to Tufts Athletics as a student-athlete, coach and administrator span 45 years, announced today that he will retire this fall.
Amherst College is your NESCAC Champion for the fifth time in program history as the Mammoths swept East No. 1 seed Tufts University, 6-2 and 4-1, on Saturday at Huskins Field to claim the 2021 NESCAC title.
Tufts' Miles Reid slugged his way to a spot on this weeks D3baseball.com Team of the Week. On the mound, it was perfection that was needed to join the roster of starting pitchers.
Out of fear of the potential spread of the COVID-19 virus, Amherst sent its students home, followed by Middlebury, then Tufts, and finally, the entire NESCAC spring sports slate has been canceled.
Gordon College Athletics Director Jonathan Tymann has named Todd Alford the new head coach for the Fighting Scots baseball team after serving as the pitching coach for the past four seasons under former head coach Rob Mansfield.
After Middlebury forced a decisive Game 7 of the NESCAC Championship earlier in the day, Tufts earned an 8-3 victory over the Panthers to secure their sixth conference title on Sunday afternoon at Colby College.
Keystone earned a key regional win on the road from Alvernia on Monday. Up north of Boston, Tufts hung a 30 spot on Salem State. Out in Michigan it was Hope winning for the 15th time in sixteen games and Kalamazoo upsetting No. 15 Adrian.
Wednesday saw the end to St. Olaf's spring trip in Florida. It was a sweet ending as the Oles defeated Kalamazoo, 15-2. Tufts walked away with a win with the second highest total base-on-balls in D-III history
Tufts exploded for 11 runs in the bottom of the fourth inning leading to a 17-2 victory over Castleton on Friday in Virginia. In Florida, two 1,000 win coaches squared off with No. 1 Wooster taking the spring contest from No. 9 Johns Hopkins.
For just the third time in program history, the Johnson & Wales University baseball team has a new head coach. An assistant at the NCAA Division I & III levels, Kevin Casey has been hired as the Wildcats' newest dugout boss.
Tufts moved to 3-1 with an early Sunday win over St. Vincent and Marymount in the afternoon. SUNY Maritime also were double winners, including a near no-hitter in the nightcap.
Tufts earned the 700th win of head coach John Casey's career with an 8-4 victory over Castleton in the Jumbos' 2018 season-opener on Friday afternoon at War Memorial Stadium.
After New England teams were shut out of the D-III College World Series in back-to-back years, the 2017 season was twice as nice as a pair of programs were among the nation’s final eight. UMass Boston and Wheaton are two of the top teams in what looks like another strong regional race.
Tufts completed a two-game sweep of Middlebury in the championship round of the 2017 NESCAC Tournament on Sunday with a 10-6 win over the Panthers which gave the Jumbos their fifth conference title.
Mass schools took advantage of a state holiday to get on the field. WPI earned an early day win while UMass-Dartmouth got a rare victory against No. 7 Tufts as the two teams split on the day.
The New England teams were out in numbers on Wednesday. Tufts won easily while Suffolk needed four late runs to turn a loss into a win and Endicott was upset minded in their win over Southern Maine.
La Grange won for the 16th time in 17 games and finished a sweep of Averett on Monday. Wooster was a victor in the only game between Top 25 teams. Tufts faced their first loss but a dropped fly turned frowns into smiles as the Jumbos finished the week without a blemish on their record.
La Grange won for the 16th time in 17 games and finished a sweep of Averett on Monday. Wooster was a victor in the only game between Top 25 teams. Tufts faced their first loss but a dropped fly turned frowns into smiles as the Jumbos finished the week without a blemish on their record.
The New England Region ended 2017 on a sour note as no one advanced to the World Series for a second straight year. Perhaps the third year’s a charm for breaking that drought?
The New England Region ended 2017 on a sour note as no one advanced to the World Series for a second straight year. Perhaps the third year’s a charm for breaking that drought?
To say the least, conference championship results shook things up quite a bit in New England. Southern Maine played itself out of NCAAs after going 0-2 in the Little East Conference Tournament, leaving the door open for Wheaton to take over the top seed....
Tufts University had 15 hits and scored in six of eight innings to win the 2016 NESCAC Championship with an 18-6 victory over Trinity College on Sunday at historic Holman Stadium.
Two thirds of the schedule was played in New England with most of the action in Mass. as teams got on the field for Patriots Day. Tufts' offense carried the day as Mass Maritime relied on their starters for the sweep. Babson took advantage of a misplay to turn a loss into a win.
Region 1 Preview: New England I
February 14, 2024When you look at the best in Region 1, there are the usual suspects. No. 17 Wheaton (Mass.) Lyons and the Tufts Jumbos. The leaders of these two conferences has dominated the likes of the the GNAC or the NAC. These days, the GNAC and NAC are on the up swing adding top teams who needed a home after the NEAC split up at the end of the 2023 season.
