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Sports Shorts for Oct. 1: A weekly wrap-up of MIT varsity athletics

Football's Ethan Peterson named semifinalist for Campbell Trophy; Desmarais breaks record for most career women's soccer coaching victories.
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Overall and Conference Records (As of Oct. 1)
Field Hockey: 9-2 (2-1 NEWMAC)
Football: 2-2 (1-1 NEFC)
Men's Soccer: 6-2-1 (0-1-1 NEWMAC)
Women's Soccer: 7-2-1 (3-0 NEWMAC)
Women's Tennis: 3-1 (2-0 NEWMAC)
Women's Volleyball: 18-3 (3-1 NEWMAC)
Water Polo: 4-6

National Rankings
#2 – Women's Cross Country
#5 – Water Polo
#14 – Co-ed Sailing

Women's Cross Country
9/24 – Sarah Quinn Named NEWMAC Cross Country Runner of the Week

Field Hockey
9/29 – Field Hockey Tops NEWMAC Rival WPI, 3-1
9/27 – MIT Field Hockey Fights off Endicott, 5-3

Football
9/29 – Fourth Quarter Comeback Lifts MIT Past UMass Dartmouth, 28-2
9/28 – Peterson Named Semifinalist for Campbell Trophy

Sailing
9/27 – No. 14 Sailing Hosts Midweek Tech Invite
9/24 – No. 15 Engineers Battle in Four Sailing Regattas

Men's Soccer
9/29 – MIT Men's Soccer Ties Wheaton in Double OT, 1-1

Women's Soccer
9/29 – Women's Soccer Shuts Out WPI, Desmarais Breaks Record for Most Career Wins
9/25 – MIT Women's Soccer Ties Lesley in Double OT, 0-0

Men's Tennis
9/28 – Men's Tennis Returns from ITA Regional Championships

Women's Tennis
9/30 – MIT Wraps Up Play at ITA Regional Championships
9/24 – Quisenberry Named NEWMAC Player of the Week

Women's Volleyball
9/25 – MIT Defeats Coast Guard in Four Sets

Water Polo
9/30 – Water Polo Takes Three of Four in Weekend Road Trip
9/25 – Water Polo Loses to Iona but Defeats Fordham

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