Sports Shorts for Oct. 14: A weekly wrap-up of MIT varsity athletics

Overall and Conference Records (As of Oct. 14)
Field Hockey: 11-1 (4-0 NEWMAC)
Football: 2-2 (0-2 NEFC)
Rifle: 1-0
Men's Soccer: 5-3-1 (2-0-1 NEWMAC)
Women's Soccer: 8-2-2 (4-1 NEWMAC)
Men's Tennis: 1-1 (0-0 NEWMAC)
Women's Tennis: 9-0 (8-0 NEWMAC)
Women's Volleyball: 15-7 (5-2 NEWMAC)
Water Polo: 6-9 (6-5 CWPA North)

National Rankings
#4 – Women's Cross Country
#4 – Men's Cross Country
#7 – Water Polo
#11 – Women's Sailing
#18 – Field Hockey
#15 – Co-ed Sailing
#18 – Field Hockey
#22 – Women's Soccer

General Athletics News
10/15 – Lauren Haynie Named Special Assistant to the Director of Athletics

Men's Cross Country 10/12 – MeCross Country Comes in 9th Place at NEICAAA Championships
10/9 – Men's Cross Country Continues to Climb USTFCCCA Coaches Poll

Women's Cross Country
10/12 – MIT Women's Cross Country Finishes in 7th at NEICAAA

Field Hockey
10/12 – Engineers Top Clark, 4-0, in Field Hockey
10/8 – Teplensky Hat-trick Leads MIT Past Wheaton, 4-1

Sailing
10/14 – Engineers Sail in Two Regattas
10/11 – Robyn Lesh to Represent MIT Sailing at National Championship
10/7 – No. 15 Coed Sailing Finishes Second at Smith Trophy

Men's Soccer
10/12 – MIT Takes over Top Spot in NEWMAC after win over Wheaton, 2-1
10/9 – Engineers Defeat Salve Regina, 4-1, in Non-Conference Home Game

Women's Soccer
10/12 – #22 Women's Soccer Blanks Clark, 3-0
10/8 – Great Defense and Three-Goal Second Half Leads MIT to 3-1 Win over Wheaton

Women's Tennis
10/12 – MIT Blanks Smith, 9-0
10/8 – MIT Upends Tufts, 8-1
10/7 – MIT Women's Tennis Sweeps NEWMAC Awards For Second Straight Week

Women's Volleyball
10/10 – Balanced Attack Powers MIT Past Wheaton
10/8 – Women's Volleyball Falls to Wellesley in Three Sets

Water Polo
10/8 – Cheney and Kruse Earn CWPA Weekly Honors

Questions or comments? Please contact Phil Hess (pghess@mit.edu; 617-258-5265). For more information, link to the official website for MIT athletics – Web: www.mitathletics.com. Or follow us on Facebook and Twitter.