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Sports Shorts for Dec. 10: A weekly wrap-up of MIT varsity athletics

Kuo, Lewis named soccer All-Americans; Silva named Regional Coach of the Year
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Overall and Conference Records (As of Dec. 10)
Men's Basketball: 7-2 (0-0 NEWMAC)
Women's Basketball: 4-4 (2-2 NEWMAC)
Field Hockey: 17-3 (7-1 NEWMAC)
Football: 5-4 (4-3 NEFC)
Rifle: 7-2
Men's Fencing: 5-5
Women's Fencing: 6-6
Men's Soccer: 13-5-2 (2-3-1 NEWMAC)
Women's Soccer: 14-4-3 (8-1 NEWMAC)
Squash: 3-9
Men's Swimming and Diving: 3-0
Women's Swimming and Diving: 4-0
Women's Tennis: 10-1 (7-0 NEWMAC)
Women's Volleyball: 30-6 (7-2 NEWMAC)
Water Polo: 11-14 (2-4 CWPA)

National Rankings
#1 – Women's Cross Country
#5 – Men's Swimming and Diving
#5 – Women's Swimming and Diving
#5 – Water Polo
#9 – Women's Sailing
#11 – Co-ed Sailing
#15 – Women's Soccer
#18 – Men's Basketball
#18 – Field Hockey
#21 – Women's Tennis
ARV – Men's Cross Country

Men's Basketball
12/6 – Men's Basketball Upended at Salem State
12/4 – Engineers Hold Off UMass Boston, 54-44

Women's Basketball
12/7 – Engineers Defeat Mount Holyoke, 65-52
12/4 – Coast Guard Edges Out MIT, 36-32

Field Hockey
12/5 – Cheryl Silva Named NFHCA New England East Region Coach of the Year

Football
12/4 – Three MIT Football Student-Athletes Named to Capital One Academic All-America Team

Rifle
12/8 – MIT Rifle Edges Wentworth

Men's Soccer
12/7 – Ben Lewis Named to ECAC All-Star Team
12/5 – Lewis and Bingham Named to All New-England Teams
12/4 – Ben Lewis Receives All-America Honors

Women's Soccer
12/7 – Andrea Park and Emily Kuo Named ECAC All-Stars
12/6 – Kuo and Wright Named to All-New England Teams
12/4 – Kuo Earns First Women's Soccer All-America Honor, MIT Claims Spot in National Rankings

Squash
12/8 – MIT Squash Falls to Amherst, 9-0

Men's Swimming and Diving
12/3 – Thomas Norris Named NEWMAC Swimmer of the Week

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