Sports Shorts for Sept. 23: A weekly wrap-up of MIT varsity athletics

Overall and Conference Records (As of Sept. 23)
Field Hockey: 7-0 (1-0 NEWMAC)
Football: 2-0 (0-0 NEFC)
Men's Soccer: 4-3 (1-0 NEWMAC)
Women's Soccer: 5-1-2 (1-0 NEWMAC)
Women's Tennis: 4-0 (4-0 NEWMAC)
Women's Volleyball: 9-5 (1-1 NEWMAC)
Water Polo: 3-7 (3-3 CWPA North)

National Rankings
#3 – Women's Cross Country
#7 – Water Polo
#11 – Women's Sailing
#15 – Co-ed Sailing
#19 – Field Hockey
#20 – Women's Soccer
#28 – Men's Cross Country

Men's Cross Country
9/21 – MIT Men's Cross Country Opens Season with a Win at the USM Invitational
9/18 – Engineers Appear on USTFCCCA National Rankings List

Women's Cross Country
9/21 – Women's Cross Country Picks up a Win at the USM Invitational
9/18 – MIT Women's Cross Country Open Season Nationally Ranked

Field Hockey
9/21 – No. 19 Engineers Hold off Springfield, 3-2
9/17 – MIT Overpowers Lasell, 9-0

Sailing
9/19 – Lesh and Sukharev-Chuyan Earn NEISA Weekly Honors
9/18 – Coed Sailing Moves Up, Women's Team Earns Spot in National Rankings
9/16 – MIT Sailing Finishes Among Top Three in Four Regattas

Men's Soccer
9/21 – MIT Men's Soccer Opens NEWMAC Play with Win against Emerson
9/18 – MIT Men's Soccer Drops Game to Roger Williams With a Score of 4-1

Women's Soccer
9/21 – MIT Women's Soccer Opens NEWMAC Play with 3-0 Win over WPI
9/17 – MIT Women's Soccer Ranked #20 in Most Recent NSCAA Poll
9/17 – #20 MIT Women's Soccer Tie #13 Roger Williams in Double Overtime
9/16 – Lauren Ullmann Named NEWMAC Defensive Player of the Week

Women's Tennis
9/21 – Women's Tennis Picks Up Road Victory at Mount Holyoke
9/16 – Quisenberry Named NEWMAC Singles Player of the Week

Women's Volleyball
9/21 – MIT Falls to Springfield, 3-0
9/17 – Women's Volleyball Defeats WPI in Four Sets

Water Polo
9/22 – MIT Water Polo Falls to Fordham and St. Francis on the Road
9/21 – MIT Water Polo Defeats Iona on the Road with a Score of 12-10

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