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Sports Shorts for Oct. 28: A weekly wrap-up of MIT varsity athletics

Women's tennis wins NEWMAC title; men's soccer wins 4-3 in overtime to stay perfect in NEWMAC play
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Overall and Conference Records (As of Oct. 28)
Field Hockey: 12-4 (5-2 NEWMAC)
Football: 4-2 (2-2 NEFC)
Rifle: 8-4
Men's Soccer: 11-3-1 (5-0-1 NEWMAC)
Women's Soccer: 11-2-3 (6-1-1 NEWMAC)
Men's Tennis: 1-1 (0-0 NEWMAC)
Women's Tennis: 10-0 (8-0 NEWMAC)
Women's Volleyball: 19-10 (5-3 NEWMAC)
Water Polo: 9-11 (6-6 CWPA North)

National Rankings
#4 – Women's Cross Country
#7 – Water Polo
#12 – Women's Sailing
#17 – Co-ed Sailing
#19 – Field Hockey
#20 – Men's Cross Country

Men's Heavyweight Crew
10/27 – MIT Men's Heavyweight Crew Continue Fall Season at Princeton Chase

Women's Openweight Crew
10/27 – Women's Openweight Crew Races at Princeton

Field Hockey
10/26 - No. 18 Mount Holyoke Tops Engineers, 6-2
10/23 - MIT Field Hockey to Play4theCure
10/22 - No. 19 Field Hockey Falls to No. 13 Wellesley, 4-1

Football
10/26 - Fourth Quarter Score Lifts MIT Past Western New England, 17-14

Rifle
10/27 - Wright Leads MIT Past the University of the Sciences

Sailing
10/24 - Sailing Has Solid Outing at Midweek Firefly Regatta
10/21 - No. 17 MIT Secures Runner-up Spot at Firefly and FJ Invitational

Men's Soccer
10/26 - Bingham's Hat Trick Helps Lead MIT to a 4-3 win over Springfield
10/23 - Men's Soccer Records Third Consecutive Shutout, Defeating Framingham State, 7-0
10/21 - Soccer's Sam Cannon Named NEWMAC Defensive Player of the Week

Women's Soccer
10/26 - Women's Soccer Blanks Babson on Senior Day, 4-0
10/22 - MIT Defeats Salem State, 3-1, in Final Non-Conference Game of the Season

Men's Swimming and Diving
10/26 - Men's Swimming & Diving Wins Every Event at Batterman Relays

Women's Swimming and Diving
10/26 – Women's Swimming & Diving Opens Season at Batterman Relays

Women's Tennis
10/27 - MIT Captures Second Consecutive NEWMAC Women's Tennis Title
10/26 - MIT Moves to NEWMAC Women's Tennis Finals with 5-0 Win Over Babson
10/21 - Peters, Soleimany Named NEWMAC Doubles Team of the Week

Women's Volleyball
10/26 - MIT Goes 1-2 at Hall of Fame Tournament
10/22 - Women's Volleyball Falls to Babson in Five-Set Thriller

Water Polo
10/22 - Cheney and Kruse Receive CWPA Weekly Awards for Second Time

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.

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