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MIT Sports Shorts for April 22

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Overall and Conference Records (As of April 22)

Baseball: 11-12 (4-8 NEWMAC)

Men’s Lacrosse: 6-5 (2-2 Pilgrim)

Women’s Lacrosse: 8-5 (3-2 NEWMAC)

Softball: 7-19 (3-13 NEWMAC)

Men’s Tennis: 12-1 (5-0 NEWMAC)

Women’s Tennis: 5-13

Men’s Volleyball: 31-8 (14-2 NECVA New England)

General Department News

National Rankings (Poll Sponsor)

#3 – Women’s Outdoor Track and Field (U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association)

#7 – Women’s Lightweight Crew Varsity Eight (US Rowing Collegiate Poll)

#9 – Men’s Volleyball (American Volleyball Coaches Association)

#11 – Men’s Lightweight Crew Varsity Eight (US Rowing Collegiate Poll)

#14 – Women’s Openweight Crew Varsity Eight (Eastern Association of Women’s Rowing Colleges)

#17 – Men’s Heavyweight Crew Varsity Eight (Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges)

#17 – Women’s Openweight Crew Second Varsity Eight (Eastern Association of Women’s Rowing Colleges)

#25 – Men’s Outdoor Track and Field (U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association)

#26 – Men’s Tennis (Intercollegiate Tennis Association)

Men’s Basketball

4/15 – Billy Johnson Selected to Play in NEBCA Senior All-Star Game

Men’s Heavyweight Crew

4/19 – Tech Heavies Finish Second at Compton Cup

Women’s Lightweight Crew

4/12 – MIT Captures Second Place at Knecht Cup

Women’s Openweight Crew

4/12 – Varsity Eight Goes Undefeated at George Washington Invitational

Women’s Lacrosse

4/10 – Casey Flynn Breaks Records in Win over Smith College

4/13 – MIT Defense Smothers Wheaton; Casey Flynn Breaks another Record

4/17 – Record-Breaking Stretch for Casey Flynn Continues in Overtime Win against Mount Holyoke

4/21 – Casey Flynn Eclipses another MIT Women’s Lacrosse Record

Rifle

4/9 – MIT Collects Four MAC All-Academic Team Honors

Sailing

4/12 – MIT Finishes Second at Longfellow Bridge Invitational

4/15 – Toan Tran-Phu and Alix de Monts Tabbed US Sailors of the Week

Softball

4/10 – Walk-Off Win Helps MIT Secure Split with WPI

Women’s Track and Field

4/12 – Portia Jones Breaks Institute Record in 100m

4/17 – Engineers Register Five Qualifying Marks and Institute Record in Regular-Season Finale

4/20 – Alina Gatowski and Karin Fisher Sweep NEWMAC Weekly Honors

Men’s Volleyball

4/13 – MIT Has Historical Run in NECVA Tournament

4/19 – Engineers Collect Slew of NECVA Awards

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