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Sports Shorts - Sept. 20, 2011

Three MIT student-athletes earn New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference weekly awards; Women's Volleyball team remains undefeated
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Overall and Conference Records (As of September 20) Field Hockey: 6-2 (0-1 NEWMAC)
Football: 1-1 (0-0 NEFC)
Men’s Soccer: 4-2 (0-1 NEWMAC)
Women’s Soccer: 4-1-1 (0-0-1 NEWMAC)
Women's Tennis: 2-0 (2-0 NEWMAC)
Women’s Volleyball: 11-0 (2-0 NEWMAC)
Men’s Water Polo: 4-10 (0-0 CWPA)

National Rankings (Poll Sponsor)
#5 – Women’s Cross Country (U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association)
#6 – Men's Water Polo (Collegiate Water Polo Association)
#11 – Men’s Cross Country (U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association)
#13 – Sailing-Co-Ed (Sailing World)
#22 – Women's Tennis (Intercollegiate Tennis Association)

Men’s Cross Country
9/19 – MIT Sweeps NEWMAC Cross Country Honors for Second Straight Week
9/17 – Tech Takes First at UMass-Dartmouth Invitational
9/12 – Mattocks, Taylor Collect NEWMAC Weekly Accolades

Women’s Cross Country
9/19 – MIT Sweeps NEWMAC Cross Country Honors for Second Straight Week
9/17 – MIT Women’s Cross Country Wins UMass-Dartmouth Invitational
9/12 – Mattocks, Taylor Collect NEWMAC Weekly Accolades

Field Hockey
9/17 – Field Hockey Drops NEWMAC Opener at Clark, 4-1
9/14 – Duffy and Klauber Lead MIT to 4-1 Win over Gordon

Football
9/17 – MIT Drops 51-13 Decision at Massachusetts Maritime

Sailing
9/17 – Engineers Shine at Hatch Brown and Mrs. Hurst Regattas

Men’s Soccer
9/17 – Brandeis Defeats MIT, 2-0
9/17 – Tech Falls to Springfield, 1-0
9/12 – Engineers Rally Past Emerson, 4-1

Women’s Soccer
9/17 – Wright Sets Record in Tie with Clark
9/13 – Tech Blanks Lesley, 1-0

Women's Tennis
9/17 – Women’s Tennis Rolls Past Clark

Women’s Volleyball
9/19 – Meghan Wright Earns NEWMAC Accolades
9/17 – Engineers Stay Undefeated with Wins Over Clark and Simmons
9/14 – Spielbauer Reaches Milestone in Engineers’ Sweep of Mount Holyoke

Men’s Water Polo
9/14 – MIT Water Polo Completes West Coast Swing with Three Wins

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