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Sports Shorts for April 22: A weekly wrap-up of MIT varsity athletics

Women’s lacrosse captures NEWMAC playoff berth; NCAA Division III men's volleyball championship relocated
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Overall and Conference Records (As of April 22)
Baseball: 18-6 (11-4 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: 3-8 (1-2 Pilgrim League)
Women's Lacrosse: 6-9 (2-3 NEWMAC)
Men's Soccer: 13-5-2 (2-3-1 NEWMAC)
Women's Soccer: 14-4-3 (8-1 NEWMAC)
Softball: 15-12 (5-7 NEWMAC)
Squash: 5-15
Men's Swimming and Diving: 7-0
Women's Swimming and Diving: 6-2
Men's Tennis: 14-1 (4-0 NEWMAC)
Women's Tennis: 15-4 (7-0 NEWMAC)
Men's Volleyball: 24-12
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
#23 – Women's Tennis
#24 – Men's Basketball
ARV – Baseball
ARV – Men's Cross Country
ARV – Men's Fencing

Baseball
4/17 – MIT Rallies Past Worcester State, 4-3
4/16 – Fast Start Carries MIT Past Wesleyan, 7-5

Men's Lacrosse
4/17 – Men's Lacrosse Overpowers Regis, 17-2
4/16 – Christopher Rullan Named Pilgrim Lacrosse League Player of the Week

Women's Lacrosse
4/18 – Wacker Breaks Records as MIT Defeats Eastern Connecticut, 16-15
4/16 – Engineers Rally Past Wellesley, 16-13

Softball
4/17 – MIT Softball Falls to Springfield College in Conference Double Header

Men's Outdoor Track & Field
4/19 – MIT Men's Track and Field Sends Two to Larry Ellis Memorial Invitational

Women's Outdoor Track & Field
4/19 – Engineers Compete Well in Invite at Princeton

Men's Volleyball
4/19 – Division III Men's Volleyball Championship Relocated To Nazareth College

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