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Sports Shorts for March 14, 2016: A weekly wrap-up of MIT varsity athletics

Virdi wins third-straight national pole vault title; Women’s Track and Field takes fifth at indoor nationals.

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Senior Giulio Gueltrini had a career-best showing with a 13th-place finish in epee at the NCAA Northeast Regional Championships.
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Senior Giulio Gueltrini had a career-best showing with a 13th-place finish in epee at the NCAA Northeast Regional Championships.
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Overall and Conference Records (as of March 14, 2016)

Baseball: 0-3

Men’s Fencing: 10-14 (5-5 NEFC)

Women’s Fencing: 17-9 (10-2 NEFC)

Men’s Lacrosse: 3-0

Women’s Lacrosse: 2-2

Men’s Swimming and Diving: 7-0

Women’s Swimming and Diving: 6-3

Men’s Tennis- 4-3

Women’s Tennis- 10-3 (8-0 NEWMAC)

Men’s Volleyball: 18-6 (3-3 UVC)

National Rankings

#4 – Men’s Swimming and Diving

#5- Women’s Track and Field

#10 – Women’s Swimming and Diving

#13- Men’s Track and Field

#13- Sailing

#14 - Women’s Tennis

Baseball
3/12 – MIT Drops Both Ends Of Twinbill at Stevens

3/7 – MIT Bats Held In Check In Season Opening Loss at UMass Boston

Men’s Fencing
3/13 – Men's Fencing Closes Season at NCAA Regional Championship

Women’s Fencing
3/13 – Sakharova and Paturu Lead Women's Fencing at NCAA Northeast Regional

Men’s Lacrosse

3/12- Engineers Power Past UNE, 18-13

3/7- Davis Named NEWMAC Men’s Lacrosse Offensive Player of the Week

Women’s Lacrosse

3/13- No. 4 Middlebury Defeats MIT, 19-7

3/9- No. 10 Tufts Holds off Engineers, 13-9

Sailing

3/6- MIT Sails to Third Place at Sharpe Trophy

Men’s Tennis

3/12- MIT Defeats Colby, 7-2

3/7-Men’s Tennis Sweeps NEWMAC Awards for Second Straight Week

Men’s Track and Field

3/12- Men’s Track and Field Gains Six All-Americans on Second Day of NCAA Indoor Championship

3/11- Albritten, 4x400 Relay Excel On First Day of NCAA Indoor Championship

3/10- Okeke Named USTFCCCA Field Athlete of the Year, Taylor Tabbed Coach of the Year

3/10- Motley Earns 2016 Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholar Award

3/7- Men’s Track and Field Has 13 Represented on All-Region List; Kaba, Okeke Named New England Division III MVP’s

Women’s Track and Field

3/12- Women’s Track and Field Finishes Fifth at NCAA Indoor Championship

3/11- Virdi’s Title Highlights Day One of NCAA Indoor Championship

3/10- Women’s Track and Field Sweeps USTFCCCA New England Honors

3/7- Twelve Members of Women’s Track and Field Team Named All-Region

Men’s Volleyball

3/12- MIT Falls to No. 2 SUNY New Paltz, 3-0

3/10- Engineers Battle Wentworth for Five Set Victory

3/8- Men's Volleyball Sweeps Lasell, 3-0

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