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MIT Track Sweeps NEWMAC Championships Men’s Tennis Claims 11th Consecutive NEWMAC Crown

MIT Track Sweeps NEWMAC Championships

The MIT men’s and women’s track and field teams captured titles today at the 2009 New England Women’s and Men’s Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) Track and Field Championship hosted by Mount Holyoke College. This marks the second time in three years that the Engineers swept the NEWMAC Championship, as the men and women each earned conference titles in 2007.

The women’s squad secured 15 All-Conference nods while the men added 13 honors.

Complete results can be found at http://web.mit.edu/daper.

—Greg McKeever, DAPER Staff

Men’s Tennis Claims 11th Consecutive NEWMAC Crown

For the second year in a row, top-seeded MIT defeated No. 2 Babson College, 5-1, to capture its 11th straight New England Women’s and Men’s Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) Men’s Tennis Championship on Saturday. In semifinal action, the Engineers (16-2) defeated No. 4 U.S. Coast Guard Academy, 5-1, while the Beavers topped No. 3 and host Wheaton College, 5-1.

—Mindy Brauer, DAPER Staff