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

Volleyball stays undefeated in NEWMAC play; Women’s Cross Country places 5th at NEICAA Championship.

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Junior Dora Tzeng won the clinching point in MIT's win over Smith on Saturday.
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Junior Dora Tzeng won the clinching point in MIT's win over Smith on Saturday.

Overall and Conference Records (as of October 12, 2015)

Field Hockey: 8-2 (4-0 NEWMAC)

Football: 1-4 (1-1 NEFC)

Men’s Soccer: 9-1-1 (4-0 NEWMAC)

Women’s Soccer: 7-5-2 (4-1 NEWMAC)

Women’s Tennis: 8-0 (7-0 NEWMAC)

Women’s Volleyball: 19-1 (7-0 NEWMAC)

Water Polo: 7-8

National Rankings

#4 – Women’s Cross Country

#6 – Water Polo

#9- Women’s Tennis

#13- Men’s Cross Country

#16 – Coed Sailing

#25- Women’s Volleyball

Men’s Cross Country

10/10- Men’s Cross Country finishes 9th overall at the NEICAAA Championship

Field Hockey
10/10- Field Hockey cruises to 5-0 win over Clark

10/6- Penn’s three goals lead MIT past Wheaton, 5-1

Sailing

10/5- Sailing notches best finish of weekend at Harvard Invitational

Men’s Soccer

10/10- Itani’s game-winner sends MIT over Wheaton, 3-2, in overtime

10/6 – Men’s Soccer draws even with No. 6 Brandeis, 0-0 in double OT

10/5- Men’s Soccer takes both NEWMAC weekly awards

Women’s Cross Country

10/10- Gong paces Women’s Cross Country to 5th at NEICAAA Championship

Women’s Soccer

10/11- Women’s Soccer edged by No. 2 Williams, 2-1

10/10 – Women’s Soccer bests Clark, 4-0, in complete team effort

10/6- Hrabchak delivers insurance goal to send MIT over Wheaton, 3-1

Women’s Tennis

10/10– Women’s Tennis completes NEWMAC play undefeated with win over Smith

Women’s Volleyball

10/8 – No. 25 Women’s Volleyball defeats Emmanuel, 3-1

10/6 – Gebhard records 1000th kill as No. 25 MIT sweeps Wellesley

10/5- Gebhard named NEWMAC Volleyball Athlete of the Week

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