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Sports Shorts for Nov. 10, 2014: A weekly wrap-up of MIT varsity athletics

Football clinches NEFC title and NCAA playoff berth; Water Polo wins two at CWPA Northern Division Championships.
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Led by a record-breaking performance by senior running back Justin Wallace (pictured), the Engineers scored a dramatic 55-37 victory over the Maine Maritime Academy in a New England Football Conference clash. The win clinched MIT's first-ever NEFC title as well as its first NCAA playoff berth.
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Led by a record-breaking performance by senior running back Justin Wallace (pictured), the Engineers scored a dramatic 55-37 victory over the Maine Maritime Academy in a New England Football Conference clash. The win clinched MIT's first-ever NEFC title as well as its first NCAA playoff berth.
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Photo: DSPics.com
Sophomore Nolan Kruse helped the Engineers capture wins against Connecticut College on Saturday and Iona College on Sunday.
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Sophomore Nolan Kruse helped the Engineers capture wins against Connecticut College on Saturday and Iona College on Sunday.
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Photo: DSPics.com

Overall and Conference Records (as of November 10, 2014):
Field Hockey: 12-5 (5-3 NEWMAC)
Football: 8-0 (6-0 NEFC)
Rifle: 7-4
Men’s Soccer: 8-7-3 (3-4 NEWMAC)
Women’s Soccer: 14-4-2 (9-0-1 NEWMAC)
Squash: 2-0
Men’s Swimming: 1-0 (1-0 NEWMAC)
Women’s Swimming: 1-0 (1-0 NEWMAC)
Women’s Tennis: 10-1 (8-0 NEWMAC)
Women’s Volleyball: 27-5 (9-1 NEWMAC)
Water Polo: 14-15 (4-8 CWPA)

National Rankings

#4 – Women’s Cross Country

#4 – Water Polo

#11 – Men’s Cross Country

#13 – Women’s Sailing

#14 – Women’s Tennis

#15 – Coed Sailing

#20 – Women’s Soccer

RV – Women’s Volleyball

RV – Football

RV – Field Hockey

General

11/4 - NEWMAC announces fall Academic All-Conference Awards  

Cross Country

11/4 - Halston Taylor named NEWMAC Men's and Women's Cross Country Coach of the Year    

Field Hockey

11/8 - Field Hockey falls to No. 16 Mount Holyoke, 1-0, in NEWMAC semifinals

11/4 - Engineers edge out WPI, 1-0, in NEWMAC field hockey quarterfinal 

Football

11/9 - Wallace named NEFC Offensive Player of the Week

11/8 - MIT clinches NEFC title with 55-37 comeback win at Maine Maritime    

11/6 - Four MIT Football players selected to Capital One Academic All-District Team

Sailing

11/4 - Area sailor returns to Bellingham Bay to compete for national championship

11/2 - Sailing competes at Nickerson Trophy, Schell Trophy and Victorian Coffee Urn

Men’s Soccer

11/5 - MIT falls to Babson in NEWMAC quarterfinal, 2-0

11/4 - Austin Freel tabbed ECAC Offensive Player of the Week

11/3 - Austin Freel named NEWMAC Offensive Player of the Week

11/3 - Gordon Glober named NEWMAC Defensive Player of the Week

Women’s Soccer

11/8 - No. 21 MIT falls to Wheaton, 2-0, in NEWMAC semifinals  

11/4 - Olivia Struckman tabbed ECAC Rookie of the Week

11/4 - Julia Goupil named ECAC Co-Defensive Player of the Week

11/3 - Olivia Struckman named NEWMAC Offensive Player of the Week

11/3 - Julia Goupil named NEWMAC Defensive Player of the Week

Squash

11/8 - MIT Squash opens season with back-to-back wins against Bryant and Lehigh

Men’s Swimming

11/8 - MIT Men's Swimming and Diving cruises past Springfield in dual meet

Women’s Swimming

11/8 - MIT Women's Swimming and Diving rolls past Springfield in dual meet

Women’s Volleyball

11/9 - Babson outlasts MIT in five-set thriller to capture NEWMAC volleyball championship

11/8 - Engineers sweep Wellesley, advance to NEWMAC volleyball championship

11/6 - Astrachan and Wuthrich receive Capital One Academic All-District honors   

11/3 - Gagnier named NEWMAC Volleyball Athlete of the Week

Water Polo

11/9 - No. 4 MIT Water Polo competes in 2014 CWPA Northern Division Championship

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