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Sports Shorts for Nov. 17, 2014: A weekly wrap-up of MIT varsity athletics

Women’s Cross Country wins New England Regional Championships; Rifle closes fall season with three wins.

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Junior Sarah Wright helped the Engineers defeat the University of the Sciences and Wentworth Institute of Technology.
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Junior Sarah Wright helped the Engineers defeat the University of the Sciences and Wentworth Institute of Technology.
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Overall and Conference Records (as of November 17, 2014):
Women’s Basketball: 1-1 (0-0 NEWMAC)
Men’s Fencing: 4-1 (4-1 NFC)
Women’s Fencing: 5-1 (5-1 NFC)
Field Hockey: 12-5 (5-3 NEWMAC)
Football: 9-0 (7-0 NEFC)
Rifle: 10-4
Men’s Soccer: 8-7-3 (3-4 NEWMAC)
Women’s Soccer: 15-5-2 (9-0-1 NEWMAC)
Squash: 3-1
Men’s Swimming: 1-0 (1-0 NEWMAC)
Women’s Swimming: 1-0 (1-0 NEWMAC)
Women’s Tennis: 10-1 (8-0 NEWMAC)
Women’s Volleyball: 28-6 (9-1 NEWMAC)
Water Polo: 14-15 (4-8 CWPA)

National Rankings
#4 – Women’s Cross Country
#4 – Water Polo
#8 – Men’s Cross Country
#14 – Women’s Sailing
#14 – Women’s Tennis
#16 – Men’s Basketball
#17 – Coed Sailing
#24 – Women’s Soccer
RV – Women’s Volleyball
RV – Football

Men’s Basketball
11/14 - MIT drops exhibition to Harvard, 73-52
11/13 - Men's Basketball picked second in preseason NEWMAC poll  

Women’s Basketball
11/16 - Engineers come from behind to defeat Southern Vermont, 86-70
11/15 - Women’s Basketball falls to Saint Joseph’s, 73-50, in season opener

Women’s Lightweight Crew
11/15 - Women’s Lightweight Crew wraps up fall season

Women’s Openweight Crew
11/15 - Openweight Crew has solid outing at Foot of the Charles

Men’s Cross Country
11/15 - MIT finishes third at the NCAA Div. III New England Regional Championship

Women’s Cross Country
11/15 - Quinn leads Women’s Cross Country to NCAA Regional win

Men’s Fencing
11/15 - MIT Men’s Fencing goes 4-1 in NFC debut

Women’s Fencing
11/15 - Engineers pick up five wins in NFC competition

Field Hockey
11/12 - Field Hockey receives NEWMAC All-Conference honors 

Football
11/16 - MIT to face Husson University in first round of NCAA Championships
11/15 - MIT completes historic regular season with 24-13 win over Coast Guard
11/13 - Wallace awarded Gold Helmet honor

Sailing
11/9 - Robyn Lesh finishes 10th at Women's Singlehanded National Championship

Men’s Soccer
11/12 - Men's Soccer receives NEWMAC All-Conference honors

Women’s Soccer
11/16 - Late goal lifts Roger Williams past. No. 24 MIT in NCAA second-round match
11/15 - Team effort lifts No. 24 MIT past Colby-Sawyer in NCAA first round
11/12 - No. 24 Women's Soccer receives NEWMAC All-Conference honors
11/10 - No. 21 MIT Women's Soccer receives at-large bid to NCAA tournament

Rifle
11/15 - Rifle gets wins against University of the Sciences, Wentworth

Squash
11/15 - MIT Squash falls to Colby, 9-0
11/13 - MIT Squash cruises past BU, 8-1

Men’s Swimming and Diving
11/10 - MIT Swimming teams race in the ninth annual Hour of Power
11/10 - Four fembers of MIT Men's Swimming and Diving collect NEWMAC weekly honors

Women’s Swimming and Diving
11/10 - MIT Swimming teams race in the ninth annual Hour of Power
11/10 - Four members of MIT Women's Swimming and Diving collect NEWMAC weekly honors

Women’s Volleyball
11/15 - Women's Volleyball falls in five sets to Bowdoin at NCAA Tournament
11/14 - MIT sweeps Rivier, advances to NCAA Volleyball Tournament second round
11/13 - Engineers rack up AVCA All-Region honors
11/12 - First-time honorees collect NEWMAC Volleyball All-Conference awards
11/10 - Women's Volleyball receives at-large bid to NCAA Tournament

Water Polo
11/12 - No. 4 MIT Men's Water Polo earns at-large bid to CWPA Championship

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