The game-winning goal came 1:56 into the second overtime period. Deep in the Babson end of the field, Russo took a long throw-in into the box. Ocel, at the near post, headed it across the goal mouth, hoping to find a teammate, but instead found the back of the net for his fourth goal of the season and his third game-winner. The team was swarmed on the field by the newly-christened Coven's Corner fans as they won their fourth-straight one-goal game. Ocel's goal was the 14^th of his career and gave him 45 career points, the 28^th player to reach that total at Brandeis.

Trailing 1-0 at halftime for the second time this season, the Judges had what 40^th-year head coach Mike Coven called the team's strongest half of soccer of the year. They outshot the Beavers, 16-6, and finally got an equalizer in the 66^th minute.

Babson junior goalkeeper Jackson Klein (Maplewood, N.J./Columbia), who had made a pair of saves on Russo and sophomore Tyler Savonen (Orleans, Mass./Nauset Regional) in the 58^th minute, looked to stymie the Judges again eight minutes later. Klein first stoned Russo and then Ocel's initial rebound, but Russo buried his second attempt to knot the game, 1-1. It was Russo's team-leading eighth goal of the season and the 28^th of his career, moving him into ninth place on Brandeis's career list. With three points tonight, he became the 13^th 70-point scorer in school history.

      The first half was a back-and-forth affair, with the Judges outshooting Babson, 6-4, but it was the Beavers who struck first in the 29^th minute. Senior All-American Eric Anderson (Scituate, Mass./The Rivers School) victimized the Judges for the seventh time in his career. After junior Mike Fisher (Longmeadow, Mass./Longmeadow) made a nice service from the right flank, classmate Kevin Israel (Lafayette Hill, Pa./Germantown Acad.) redirected it to Anderson, who headed it home for his team-leading seventh goal of the season.

      Klein kept the Beavers in the contest with 10 saves, including eight in the second half. Brandeis senior Blake Minchoff (Fiskdale, Mass./Tantasqua Regional) had two stops for the Judges.

With the win, Brandeis improves to 8-0 overall this season and has now won 13 in a row dating back to 2011. The Judges are off to their best start since 1985, when they won their first 15 in a row. They also snapped a three-match losing streak to their rivals. This was the 60^th meeting between the two schools and the third straight that was decided in double overtime.

Babson, ranked seventh in New England drops its second-straight contest to fall to 5-2-1 on the campaign. The Beavers still lead the all-time series, 28-22-10.

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