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Sports Shorts for Jan. 12, 2015: A weekly wrap-up of MIT varsity athletics

Three Engineers named Burchard Scholars; Swimming and Diving and Track and Field open 2015 with wins.
L-R: MIT juniors Abra Shen, Ryan Webb, and Marina Crowe have been named 2015 Burchard Scholars.
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L-R: MIT juniors Abra Shen, Ryan Webb, and Marina Crowe have been named 2015 Burchard Scholars.
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Photo: DSPics.com

Overall and Conference Records (as of January 12, 2015)
Men’s Basketball: 9-3 (2-0 NEWMAC)
Women’s Basketball: 6-8 (2-3 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: 3-4
Men’s Swimming and Diving: 4-0 (3-0 NEWMAC)
Women’s Swimming and Diving: 5-0 (4-0 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
#4 – Men’s Swimming and Diving
#7 – Women’s Swimming and Diving

General News
1/6 - Trio of Engineers named Burchard Scholars

Men’s Basketball
1/10 - MIT upends no. 7 WPI, 51-46
1/7 - MIT opens NEWMAC play with 78-53 win at Clark

Women’s Basketball
1/10 - Ilutzi leads Women’s Basketball in 70-62 win over Smith
1/7 - Drammis and Ramachandran post double-doubles in 65-61 loss to Wheaton

Squash
1/9 - MIT falls to Middlebury, 9-0

Men’s Swimming and Diving
1/10 - No. 4 MIT swims past U.S. Coast Guard Academy, 170.5-66.5

Women’s Swimming and Diving
1/10 - No. 7 MIT cruises past U.S. Coast Guard Academy, 181-53

Men’s Track and Field
1/10 - MIT captures first indoor meet against Bates and Colby

Women’s Track and Field
1/10 - MIT opens indoor season with wins against Bates and Colby

Men’s Water Polo
1/6 - Andriole to return as head coach of MIT Water Polo program

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