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Sports Shorts for Nov. 6: A weekly wrap-up of MIT varsity athletics

Three Engineer teams win NEWMAC titles; water polo defeats Harvard for second time this season.
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Overall and Conference Records (As of Nov. 5)
Field Hockey: 17-2 (7-1 NEWMAC)
Football: 5-4 (4-3 NEFC)
Rifle: 2-1
Men's Soccer: 13-4-2 (2-3-1 NEWMAC)
Women's Soccer: 13-3-2 (8-1 NEWMAC)
Women's Tennis: 10-1 (7-0 NEWMAC)
Women's Volleyball: 30-5 (7-2 NEWMAC)
Water Polo: 11-11 (2-4 CWPA)

National Rankings
#1 – Women's Cross Country
#6 – Water Polo
#9 – Co-ed Sailing
#20 – Field Hockey
#21 – Women's Tennis
#31 – Men's Cross Country
ARV – Women's Sailing
ARV – Women's Soccer

Men's Crew
11/3 – Men's Heavyweight and Lightweight Crew Completes Dartmouth Green Monster Invitational

Women's Crew
11/3 – Women's Openweight Crew Competes at Dartmouth Green Monster
11/3 – Women's Lightweight Crew Rows at Dartmouth

Cross Country
11/1 – Taylor Earns NEWMAC Women's Coach of the Year Honors

Field Hockey
11/4 – Field Hockey Captures Third NEWMAC Title in Four Years
11/3 – Engineers Top Wellesley, Advance to NEWMAC Championship
10/31 – Field Hockey Returns to NFHCA National Rankings
10/29 – Wharton Receives NEWMAC Field Hockey Weekly Honors

Football
11/3 – Big First Half Carries Endicott Past MIT In Final Football Game of Season

Rifle
11/3 – MIT Rifle Rolls Past University of the Sciences

Sailing
10/29 – Sailing Secures Postseason Bids Following Outstanding Weekend

Men's Soccer
11/4 – Engineers Win First NEWMAC Men's Soccer Championship
11/3 – Men's Soccer Advances to Finals of NEWMAC Championship
11/2 – Hammond and Diamantoni Named to COSIDA Academic All-District Team
10/31 – MIT Men's Soccer Edges Out Wheaton in Overtime of NEWMAC Quarterfinals, 1-0

Women's Soccer
11/3 – Women's Soccer Eliminated from NEWMAC Tournament
11/2 – Four Engineers Named to CoSIDA Academic All-District Team

Women's Tennis
11/2 – Women's Tennis Earns National Ranking
10/30 – Quisenberry, Tam Highlight 2012 NEWMAC Women's Tennis Awards

Women's Volleyball
11/4 – MIT Sweeps Wellesley for NEWMAC Volleyball Crown
11/3 – Women's Volleyball Defeats Springfield, Earns Spot in NEWMAC Championship
10/31 – MIT Rallies to Defeat Babson, 3-1, in NEWMAC Quarterfinal

Water Polo
11/3 – Water Polo Takes Two of Three at Northern Division Championships

Questions or comments? Please contact Phil Hess (pghess@mit.edu; 617-253-7946).
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