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Sports Shorts for May 13: A weekly wrap-up of MIT varsity athletics

Baseball wins ECAC championship, earns at-large bid to NCAA Tournament; Barlow and Williams awarded NEWMAC Coach of the Year honors
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Overall and Conference Records (As of May 13)
Baseball: 27-11 (13-5 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: 5-10 (3-3 Pilgrim League)
Women's Lacrosse: 6-11 (2-4 NEWMAC)
Men's Soccer: 13-5-2 (2-3-1 NEWMAC)
Women's Soccer: 14-4-3 (8-1 NEWMAC)
Softball: 19-14 (7-7 NEWMAC)
Squash: 5-15
Men's Swimming and Diving: 7-0
Women's Swimming and Diving: 6-2
Men's Tennis: 18-3 (5-0 NEWMAC)
Women's Tennis: 17-5 (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 Lightweight Rowing
#8 – Men's Lightweight Rowing
#7 – Women's Swimming and Diving
#5 – Water Polo
#12 – Co-ed Sailing
#14 – Men's Volleyball
#14 – Women's Indoor Track & Field
#15 – Women's Soccer
#18 – Field Hockey
#22 – Women's Tennis
#24 – Men's Basketball
#29 – Men's Tennis
ARV – Baseball
ARV – Men's Cross Country
ARV – Men's Fencing
ARV – Women's Sailing

Baseball
5/13 – MIT Earns At-Large Bid to NCAA Division III Baseball Tournament
5/12 – Locascio Pitches MIT to ECAC New England Baseball Championship
5/11 – MIT Advances To ECAC Championship By Blanking Elms, 12-0
5/10 – MIT Edges Mitchell, 6-4, to Advance In ECAC Tournament
5/7 – Four Engineers Named All-NEWMAC in Baseball; Barlow Selected as Coach of the Year
5/6 – MIT Rolls Past Suffolk, 12-4

Men's Lightweight Crew
5/10 – MIT Men's Lightweight Crew Fares Well at Dad Vail Regatta

Women's Lightweight Crew

5/11 – Lightweight 8 Takes Silver at Dad Vail Regatta

Men's Lacrosse
5/7 – MIT Men's Lacrosse Garners Pilgrim League Honors

Women's Lacrosse
5/1 – Wacker and Wright Collect NEWMAC All-Conference Honors

Sailing
5/7 – Sailing Collects All-NEISA Coed Accolades
5/6 – MIT Competes in New England Team Race Championship

Softball
5/8 – Fodor Selected to 2nd Team All-Conference; Williams Named NEWMAC Coach of the Year

Men's Tennis
5/10 – MIT Men's Tennis Falls to Skidmore in 2nd Round of NCAAs
5/8 – MIT's Quisenberry and Zhang Invited to NCAA Tennis Tournament

Women's Tennis
5/11 – Women's Tennis Falls to Middlebury in Second Round of NCAA Tournament
5/10 – MIT Defeats Simmons at NCAA Tournament
5/8 – MIT's Quisenberry and Zhang Invited to NCAA Tennis Tournament

Men's Outdoor Track & Field
5/11 – Engineers Complete NEICAAAs in 8th Place
5/10 – Men's Track and Field Completes First Day of NEICAAAs

Women's Outdoor Track & Field
5/11 – Women's Track and Field Finishes Well at NEICAAAs
5/10 – MIT Women's Outdoor Track and Field Compete at NEICAAAs

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