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Sports Shorts for Nov. 20: A weekly wrap-up of MIT varsity athletics

Taylor named All-American; Manion named Elite 89 Award recipient; men’s basketball opens with a pair of wins
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Overall and Conference Records (As of Nov. 19)
Men's Basketball: 2-0 (0-0 NEWMAC)
Women's Basketball: 1-1 (0-0 NEWMAC)
Field Hockey: 17-3 (7-1 NEWMAC)
Football: 5-4 (4-3 NEFC)
Rifle: 6-2
Men's Soccer: 13-5-2 (2-3-1 NEWMAC)
Women's Soccer: 14-4-3 (8-1 NEWMAC)
Men's Swimming and Diving: 3-0
Women's Swimming and Diving: 4-0
Women's Tennis: 10-1 (7-0 NEWMAC)
Women's Volleyball: 30-6 (7-2 NEWMAC)
Water Polo: 11-14 (2-4 CWPA)

National Rankings
#1 – Men's Basketball
#1 – Women's Cross Country
#5 – Water Polo
#10 – Co-ed Sailing
#11 – Women's Sailing
#18 – Field Hockey
#21 – Women's Tennis
ARV – Men's Cross Country

Men's Basketball
11/17 – MIT Pulls Away From Gordon With Second Half Surge
11/15 – No. 1 MIT Opens With 82-49 Win at Lesley

Women's Basketball
11/18 – Balanced Attack Powers Women's Basketball Past Bates, 74-51
11/17 – Ramachandran Leads MIT in Loss to Salem State

Men's Crew
11/17 – MIT Men's Lightweight Crew Concludes Fall Season at Foot of the Charles
11/17 – MIT Men's Heavyweight Crew Has a Good Showing at Foot of the Charles

Women's Cross Country
11/17 – MIT's Manion Receives Elite 89 Award
11/17 – Women's Cross Country Finishes in 6th at NCAA Championship

Men's Fencing
11/17 – Men's Fencing Wins Four of Five at NFC Opener

Women's Fencing
11/17 – Women's Fencing Goes Undefeated in NFC Action

Field Hockey
11/16 – Barker and McShane to Participate in NFHCA Senior Game
11/15 – MIT Places Four on NFHCA All-Region Team

Sailing
11/12 – Engineers Secure Sixth Place at Women's Atlantic Coast Championship

Women's Soccer
11/11 – MIT Women's Soccer Eliminated from NCCA Tournament After Loss Against Messiah

Squash
11/16 – MIT Squash Completes Final Day of MIT & Wellesley Invite

Men's Swimming and Diving
11/17 – MIT Men's Swimming and Diving Wins Against Bowdoin and Babson
11/14 – MIT Swimmers Participate in Sixth Annual Hour of Power Relays

Women's Swimming and Diving
11/17 – Women's Swimming Defeats Bowdoin and Babson at Home on Saturday Afternoon
11/16 – MIT Women's Swimming & Diving Defeats Wellesley, 179-62
11/14 – MIT Swimmers Participate in Sixth Annual Hour of Power Relays

Women's Volleyball
11/16 – Spielbauer and Taylor Recognized by NEWVA
11/13 – Taylor Earns Women's Volleyball All-America Honors
11/12 – Ada Taylor Tabbed for NCAA Accolades

Water Polo
11/18 – MIT Water Polo Wraps Up Season With Loss to Harvard at Eastern Championship
11/17 – Navy Defeats MIT Water Polo, 21-9
11/16 – Water Polo Suffers Tough Loss to Merychurst, 6-5
11/16 – Three Engineers Named to CWPA All-North Teams, Rogers Receives Rookie of the Year Honors

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