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Sports Shorts for April 8: A weekly wrap-up of MIT varsity athletics

Ubellacker featured in Sports Illustrated's ‘Faces in the Crowd’; track teams capture Engineer's Cup titles
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Overall and Conference Records (As of April 8)
Baseball: 14-3 (10-1 NEWMAC)
Men's Basketball: 20-6 (10-2 NEWMAC)
Women's Basketball: 11-13 (7-11 NEWMAC)
Field Hockey: 17-3 (7-1 NEWMAC)
Football: 5-4 (4-3 NEFC)
Rifle: 14-6
Men's Fencing: 14-10
Women's Fencing: 15-12
Men's Lacrosse: 2-6 (0-1 Pilgrim League)
Women's Lacrosse: 4-7 (1-2 NEWMAC)
Men's Soccer: 13-5-2 (2-3-1 NEWMAC)
Women's Soccer: 14-4-3 (8-1 NEWMAC)
Softball: 11-8 (2-4 NEWMAC)
Squash: 5-15
Men's Swimming and Diving: 7-0
Women's Swimming and Diving: 6-2
Men's Tennis: 13-0 (3-0 NEWMAC)
Women's Tennis: 14-4 (7-0 NEWMAC)
Men's Volleyball: 23-11
Women's Volleyball: 30-6 (7-2 NEWMAC)
Water Polo: 11-14 (2-4 CWPA)

National Rankings
#1 – Women's Cross Country
#1 – Men's Swimming and Diving
#7 – Women's Swimming and Diving
#5 – Water Polo
#11 – Co-ed Sailing
#13 – Women's Sailing
#13 – Men's Volleyball
#14 – Women's Indoor Track & Field
#15 – Women's Soccer
#18 – Field Hockey
#18 – Women's Outdoor Track & Field
#20 – Men's Tennis
#21 – Women's Tennis
#24 – Men's Basketball
ARV – Baseball
ARV – Men's Cross Country
ARV – Men's Fencing
ARV – Women's Sailing

Baseball
4/6 – MIT Completes Series Sweep Against WPI
4/5 – MIT Gets Past WPI, 11-7
4/3 – Babson Outscores MIT, 14-4
4/2 – Pitching Carries MIT Past Babson, 7-1

Men's Heavyweight Crew
4/6 – MIT Men's Heavyweight Crew Takes on Holy Cross, Dartmouth and Columbia

Men's Lightweight Crew
4/6 – MIT Men's Lightweight Crew Completes Joy Cup

Women's Openweight Crew
4/6 – Openweight Crew Edged Out by Boston College

Men's Lacrosse
4/6 – MIT Falls to Springfield in Pilgrim League Opener
4/2 – Engineers Overpower UMass Boston, 17-6

Women's Lacrosse
4/6 – MIT Women's Lacrosse Falls to Mount Holyoke, 17-6
4/4 – Keene State Tops Engineers, 12-3
4/2 – Balanced Attack Powers Women's Lacrosse Past Framingham State, 21-6

Sailing
4/5 – Coed Sailing Moves Up, Women's Team Returns to National Rankings
4/1 – Women's Sailing Captures Ninth at Dellenbaugh Trophy

Softball
4/6 – Engineers Defeated by Wheaton in Conference Action
4/5 – MIT Softball Falls to Wellesley College in NEWMAC Action
4/3 – Engineers Win Ninth Straight Game After Defeating Suffolk
4/1 – Marshall Receives NEWMAC Accolades

Men's Swimming and Diving
4/5 – Wyatt Ubellacker to be Featured in Sports Illustrated's 'Faces in the Crowd'

Men's Tennis
4/6 – Undefeated MIT Men's Tennis Wins Against Clark, 8-1
4/3 – MIT Men's Tennis Continues Undefeated Streak with Win against Babson
4/1 – Skalak and Zhang named NEWMAC Men's Tennis Doubles Team of the Week

Women's Tennis
4/7 – MIT Women's Tennis Upended by Trinity
4/6 – Engineers Fall to Skidmore, 6-3
4/5 – MIT Defeats Wellesley, 8-1, in First Round of Nor'Easter Bowl

Men's Outdoor Track & Field
4/6 – Men's Track and Field Finishes First in Engineer's Cup

Women's Outdoor Track & Field
4/6 – MIT Women's Outdoor Track and Field Team Take the Win in the Engineer's Cup

Men's Volleyball
4/6 – Engineers Finish Second at MIT Scramble Tournament
4/3 – Men's Volleyball Ranked 13th in AVCA Coaches Poll

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