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Sports Shorts for Sept. 8, 2014: A weekly wrap-up of MIT varsity athletics

Field hockey wins first two contests; Football defeats Pomona-Pitzer in season opener
Senior Brad Goldsberry paved the way to MIT victory against Pomona-Pitzer.
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Senior Brad Goldsberry paved the way to MIT victory against Pomona-Pitzer.
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Elizabeth Dethy '15 helped the Engineers top Simmons and UMass Dartmouth.
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Elizabeth Dethy '15 helped the Engineers top Simmons and UMass Dartmouth.
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Overall and Conference Records (as of September 8, 2014):
Field Hockey: 2-0 (0-0 NEWMAC)
Football: 1-0 (0-0 NEFC)
Men’s Soccer: 1-0-2 (0-0 NEWMAC)
Women’s Soccer: 4-0 (0-0 NEWMAC)
Women’s Tennis: 1-0 (1-0 NEWMAC)
Women’s Volleyball: 7-1 (0-0 NEWMAC)
Water Polo: 1-1 (0-0 CWPA)

National Rankings
#6 - Men’s Cross Country
#6 – Women’s Cross Country

Field Hockey
9/6 - Penn, Dethy lead Field Hockey in 5-2 win over UMass Dartmouth
9/4 - MIT Field Hockey tops Simmons, 5-3, in season opener

Football
9/7 - Emberley earns Defensive Player of the Week honor from the NEFC
9/6 - MIT Football opens with 28-18 win over Pomona-Pitzer

Men’s Soccer
9/7 - MIT ties Wentworth Institute of Technology in double overtime, 2-2
9/6 - MIT, Eastern Connecticut play to 2-2 tie
9/2 - MIT Men's Soccer tops Anna Maria in home opener

Women’s Soccer
9/7 - No. 25 MIT tops Claremont-Mudd-Scripps, 1-0
9/2 - Lauren Ullmann named NEWMAC Defensive Player of the Week
9/2 - Second-half surge lifts #25 MIT past Worcester State

Women’s Tennis
9/6 - Women’s Tennis opens season with victory over Emerson

Women’s Volleyball
9/6 - Engineers finish second at Vassar Invitational
9/2 - Gebhard named NEWMAC Volleyball Player of the Week

Men’s Water Polo
9/7 - MIT ends Princeton Univ. Tournament with a win against Iona
9/2 - Andriole named interim head coach of MIT Water Polo program

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