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

Swimming and Diving teams break records at MIT Invitational; fall sports tally All-America honors.
Senior Emmie Ryan helped the Engineers capture the MIT Winter Invitational.
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Senior Emmie Ryan helped the Engineers capture the MIT Winter Invitational.
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Photo: DSPics.com

Overall and Conference Records (as of December 8, 2014)
Men’s Basketball: 6-1 (0-0 NEWMAC)
Women’s Basketball: 4-3 (1-1 NEWMAC)
Men’s Fencing: 4-6 (4-1 NFC)
Women’s Fencing: 9-3 (5-1 NFC)
Field Hockey: 12-5 (5-3 NEWMAC)
Football: 10-1 (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: 3-3
Men’s Swimming and Diving: 3-0 (2-0 NEWMAC)
Women’s Swimming and Diving: 4-0 (3-0 NEWMAC)
Women’s Tennis: 10-1 (8-0 NEWMAC)
Women’s Volleyball: 28-6 (9-1 NEWMAC)
Water Polo: 15-17 (4-8 CWPA)

Current National Rankings
#6 – Men’s Swimming and Diving
#11 – Women’s Swimming and Diving
#11 – Men’s Basketball

Men’s Basketball
12/6 - MIT edges Framingham State, 64-61
12/4 - Defense carries Men’s Basketball past Salem State, 73-37
12/2 - UMass Boston hands MIT first loss of the season
12/1 - Pedley named NEWMAC Player of the Week   

Women’s Basketball
12/6 - Engineers defeat Mount Holyoke, 75-56
12/3 - Babson tops Women's Basketball, 79-56, in NEWMAC opener
12/1 - Sabrina Drammis named NEWBA Player of the Week    

Men’s Fencing
12/7 - Tech Fencing battles at Brandeis Invitational

Women’s Fencing
12/7 - MIT goes 4-2 at Brandeis Invitational 

Women’s Field Hockey
12/1 - Elizabeth Dethy collects NFHCA All-America honors

Football
12/2 - Wallace, Tobin named Academic All-Americans  

Women’s Soccer
12/7 - Krishnamachar receives NSCAA All-America honors
12/4 - MIT Women's Soccer trio named NSCAA/Continental Tire All-New England   

Squash
12/7 - Five members of MIT Squash compete at individual Division III Midseason Nationals

Men’s Swimming and Diving
12/7 - MIT Men's Swimming and Diving captures Winter Invite  
12/6 - MIT Men's Swimming and Diving participates in second day of MIT Winter Invite
12/5 - MIT Men's Swimming and Diving participates in first day of MIT Winter Invite

Women’s Swimming and Diving
12/7 - MIT Women's Swimming and Diving captures Winter Invite
12/6 - MIT Women's Swimming and Diving competes in second day of the MIT Winter Invite
12/5 - MIT Women's Swimming and Diving competes in first day of the MIT Winter Invite 

Men’s Track and Field
12/6 - Godwin competes at Boston University season-opener meet

Women’s Track and Field
12/6 - Gong, Quinn compete at Boston University season-opener meet

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