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Sports Shorts for April 6, 2015: A weekly wrap-up of MIT varsity athletics

Baseball picks up five wins; rowing teams brave cold waters for first contests of the season.

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Women's Openweight Crew
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Overall and conference records (as of April 6, 2015)
Baseball: 9-3 (5-0 NEWMAC)
Men’s Basketball: 18-8 (10-4 NEWMAC)
Women’s Basketball: 11-15 (7-9 NEWMAC)
Men’s Fencing: 12-12 (8-2 NFC)
Women’s Fencing: 18-9 (9-3 NFC)
Field Hockey: 12-5 (5-3 NEWMAC)
Football: 10-1 (7-0 NEFC)
Men’s Lacrosse: 7-3 (1-1 NEWMAC)
Women’s Lacrosse: 8-2 (2-1 NEWMAC)
Rifle: 17-8
Men’s Soccer: 8-7-3 (3-4 NEWMAC)
Women’s Soccer: 15-5-2 (9-0-1 NEWMAC)
Softball: 10-2 (4-0 NEWMAC)
Squash: 9-8
Men’s Swimming and Diving: 6-1 (3-0 NEWMAC)
Women’s Swimming and Diving: 7-1 (4-0 NEWMAC)
Men’s Tennis: 8-2 (1-1 NEWMAC)
Women’s Tennis: 13-4 (8-0 NEWMAC)
Men’s Volleyball: 18-11 (2-6 UVC)
Women’s Volleyball: 28-6 (9-1 NEWMAC)
Water Polo: 15-17 (4-8 CWPA)

Current National Rankings
#5 – Women’s Outdoor Track and Field
#9 – Men’s Outdoor Track and Field
#13 – Women’s Tennis
RV – Coed Sailing
RV – Women’s Sailing

Baseball
4/4 - MIT sweeps series from Emerson with pair of wins
4/3 - MIT powers past Emerson, 6-2
4/2 - MIT opens NEWMAC baseball season with sweep of Springfield
3/30 - Filiere named NEWMAC Player of the Week   

Men’s Heavyweight Crew
4/4 - Men’s Heavyweight Crew opens spring season on the Charles River

Men’s Lightweight Crew
4/4 - MIT Men’s Lightweight Crew has solid showing at the Joy Cup

Women’s Lightweight Crew
4/4 - Women’s Lightweight Crew fares well in first home race of season

Women’s Openweight Crew
4/4 - Openweight Crew opens spring season

Men’s Fencing
3/30 - Men’s Fencing receives trio of NFC accolades

Women’s Fencing
3/30 - Cordelia Avery named NFC All-Star

Men’s Lacrosse
4/4 - Babson overtakes MIT in fourth quarter to take 15-10 win
3/31 - Late run leads Engineers to 9-5 win over UMass Dartmouth 

Women’s Lacrosse
4/4 - Roger Williams comes from behind to defeat MIT, 19-13
4/1 - Strong second half propels Tech to 17-5 win over Wellesley 

Sailing
3/29 - Tech finishes sixth at Duplin Women's Team Race  

Softball
4/2 - MIT Softball sweeps Emerson College
4/1 - Coach Williams reflects on MIT's first few weeks of competition
3/30 - Marshall tabbed NEWMAC Softball Pitcher of the Week

Men’s Tennis
4/4 - MIT rolls past Springfield
4/2 - MIT rolls past Salem State, 9-0
4/1 - Babson rolls past MIT in NEWMAC opener, 6-3

Women’s Tennis
4/4 - Women’s Tennis falls at Bowdoin

Men’s Track and Field
4/4 - Men’s Track and Field runs away with Engineers Cup
3/30 - MIT's Ken Cooper tabbed NEWMAC Field Athlete of the Week

Women’s Track and Field
4/4 - Women’s Track and Field clinches Engineers Cup

Men’s Volleyball
4/4 - Men's Volleyball sweeps its way to MIT Scramble tournament title

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