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Sports Shorts for Oct. 25: A weekly wrap-up of MIT varsity athletics

Women's tennis reaches NEWMAC finals; women's volleyball gains 20th victory of the season.
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Overall and Conference Records (As of October 24) Field Hockey: 13-3 (5-2 NEWMAC)
Football: 1-6 (0-6 NEFC)
Men’s Soccer: 7-6 (2-3 NEWMAC)
Women’s Soccer: 10-3-2 (5-1-2 NEWMAC)
Men's Tennis: 1-2 (0-0 NEWMAC)
Women's Tennis: 7-3 (6-1 NEWMAC)
Women’s Volleyball: 21-9 (5-2 NEWMAC)
Men’s Water Polo: 8-13 (4-4 CWPA)

National Rankings (Poll Sponsor)
#5 – Women’s Cross Country (U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association)
#7 – Men's Water Polo (Collegiate Water Polo Association)
#12 – Men’s Cross Country (U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association)
#t13 – Sailing-Co-Ed (Sailing World)
#22 – Women's Tennis (Intercollegiate Tennis Association)

Men’s Crew
10/24 – Men’s Crew Opens Season at Head of the Charles
10/18 – Tech Crews Prep for Head of the Charles Regatta

Women’s Crew
10/23 – Openweight Eight has Best Finish ever at Head of the Charles Regatta
10/18 – Tech Crews Prep for Head of the Charles Regatta

Field Hockey
10/18 – Tech Stunned by Wellesley, 2-1, in Overtime

Football
10/22 – Salve Regina Pushes Past MIT, 36-13

Sailing
10/24 – Sailing Battles at Stu Nelson and Oberg Trophies

Men’s Soccer
10/22 – MIT defeats Clark, 1-0

Women’s Soccer
10/18 – Engineers Edge Out Wellesley, 2-1, in Overtime
10/22 – Women’s Soccer Blanks Coast Guard, 2-0
10/24 – Ambika Krishnamachar Collects NEWMAC Weekly Honors

Women's Tennis
10/22 – Second-Seeded MIT Ousts Third-Seeded Babson, 5-3, To Advance In NEWMAC Tourney
10/23 – MIT Falls In NEWMAC Finals, 5-1

Women’s Volleyball
10/19 – Women’s Volleyball Sweeps Wheaton, Reaches 20-Win Mark
10/24 – MIT Competes at Hall of Fame Tournament

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