Sports Shorts: A weekly wrap-up of MIT varsity athletics

Overall and Conference Records (As of Oct. 17)
Field Hockey: 13-2 (5-1 NEWMAC)
Football: 1-5(0-5 NEFC)
Men’s Soccer: 6-6 (1-3 NEWMAC)
Women’s Soccer: 8-3-2 (3-1-2 NEWMAC)
Men's Tennis: 1-2 (0-0 NEWMAC)
Women's Tennis: 6-2 (6-1 NEWMAC)
Women’s Volleyball: 19-7 (4-2 NEWMAC)
Men’s Water Polo: 8-13 (3-3 CWPA)

National Rankings (Poll Sponsor)
#5 – Women’s Cross Country (U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association)
#7 – Men's Water Polo (Collegiate Water Polo Association)
#7 – Men’s Cross Country (U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association)
#t13 – Sailing-Co-Ed (Sailing World)
#22 – Women's Tennis (Intercollegiate Tennis Association)

General MIT Athletics News
10/13 – Benedick to be Inducted into CWPA Hall of Fame

Men’s Cross Country
10/17 – Pair of Tech Harriers Named NEWMAC Runners of the Week
10/15 – MIT Places Seventh at Brooks Invitational

Women’s Cross Country
10/17 – Pair of Tech Harriers Named NEWMAC Runners of the Week
10/15 –Tech Women Take Second at Nationals Preview

Field Hockey
10/15 –MIT Downs Mount Holyoke, 3-2, in Key NEWMAC Matchup
10/14 – Help MIT Field Hockey Support the Lymphoma Research Foundation

Football
10/15 – Western New England Blanks MIT, 31-0

Rifle
10/15 – Rifle Opens At Home with Wins over John Jay and Wentworth

Sailing
10/17 – No. 11 Sailing Competes at Navy Fall and Captain Hurst Bowl Regattas

Men’s Soccer

10/17 – Samuel Cannon Receives NEWMAC Accolades
10/15 – Tech Takes Coast Guard, 2-0

Women’s Soccer
10/15 – Late Goal Propels MIT Past Mount Holyoke
10/11 – Tufts Topples Women’s Soccer, 2-0

Men’s Tennis
10/15 – MIT Tripped Up By Amherst, 8-1

Women's Tennis
10/17 - Vishnevetsky Named NEWMAC Player of the Week
10/15 – Women’s Tennis Competes at NEWITT Tournament
10/12 – MIT Seeded No. 2 For NEWMAC Tournament
10/11 – Women’s Tennis Finishes NEWMAC Play With Win at Wheaton

Women’s Volleyball
10/16 – Engineers Finish Third at MIT Quad Tournament
10/12 – Engineers Sweep Smith

Men’s Water Polo
10/15 – Water Polo Splits a Pair of Divisional Games Saturday
10/13 – Benedick to be Inducted into CWPA Hall of Fame