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

Quisenberry, Zhang compete at NCAA individual championships; four Engineers earn Academic All-America honors
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Overall and Conference Records (As of May 28)

  • Baseball: 27-13 (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
  • #25 – Men's Outdoor Track & Field
  • #29 – Men's Tennis
  • ARV – Baseball
  • ARV – Men's Cross Country
  • ARV – Men's Fencing
  • ARV – Women's Sailing

General News
5/24 – Inaugural MIT Golf Outing a Success
5/22 – MIT Places Three on Capital One Academic All-District At-Large Team

Men's Heavyweight Crew
5/19 – MIT Men's Heavyweight Crew Competes in EARC Sprints Regatta

Men's Lightweight Crew
5/19 – Men's Lightweight Crew Completes EARC Sprints Regatta

Women's Openweight Crew
5/23 – Sack, Meyer Named to All-Patriot League Team

Men's Lacrosse
5/23 – Men's Lacrosse Returns to NEWMAC After Nine-Year Hiatus
5/22 – Christopher Rullan to Play in USILA North-South Game

Softball
5/22 – Leah Alpert Named to Capital One Academic All-America Team

Men's Tennis
5/23 – Zhang Wins First Match in Opening Round of NCAAs, Falls in Second Match

Women's Tennis
5/23 – Quisenberry Wins First Match, Drops Second at NCAA Championships

Men's Outdoor Track & Field
5/25 – MIT Men's Track & Field Completes Final Day of NCAAs
5/24 – Engineers Fare Well on Day Two of NCAA Championships
5/23 – Engineers Qualify Two Relays for Finals on Day One of NCAAs, Break 23-Year-Old Record

Women's Outdoor Track & Field
5/25 – Women's Track and Field Concludes Season at NCAA Championships
5/23 – MIT Women's Track & Field Wraps up First Day of NCAAs

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