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Sports Shorts for Feb. 11: A weekly wrap-up of MIT varsity athletics

Tashman, Low earn NEWMAC Player of the Week honors; men's volleyball wins at Mount Ida
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Overall and Conference Records (As of Feb. 11)
Men's Basketball: 17-4 (8-2 NEWMAC)
Women's Basketball: 9-12 (5-10 NEWMAC)
Field Hockey: 17-3 (7-1 NEWMAC)
Football: 5-4 (4-3 NEFC)
Rifle: 7-2
Men's Fencing: 13-8
Women's Fencing: 14-10
Men's Soccer: 13-5-2 (2-3-1 NEWMAC)
Women's Soccer: 14-4-3 (8-1 NEWMAC)
Squash: 4-13
Men's Swimming and Diving: 7-0
Women's Swimming and Diving: 6-2
Women's Tennis: 10-1 (7-0 NEWMAC)
Men's Volleyball: 6-5
Women's Volleyball: 30-6 (7-2 NEWMAC)
Water Polo: 11-14 (2-4 CWPA)

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

Men's Basketball
2/6 – MIT Holds Off Comeback Attempt by Babson in 69-53 Victory
2/4 – Tashman Earns Second Straight NEWMAC Player of the Week Award

Women's Basketball
2/6 – No. 18 Babson Defeats Women's Basketball, 54-39

Squash
2/3 – Engineers Defeated by Harvard, 9-0

Men's Swimming and Diving
2/4 – Dion Low Named NEWMAC Swimmer of the Week

Men's Indoor Track & Field
2/6 – MIT Men's Track and Field Continue to Improve in National Rankings

Women's Indoor Track & Field
2/6 – Women's Track and Field Remain Ranked 12th in the Nation

Men's Volleyball
2/6 – Men's Volleyball Sweeps Mount Ida, 3-0

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