WALTHAM, Mass. – On a rainy night under the lights, the Brandeis University men's soccer team outshot 21^st-ranked Carnegie Mellon University, 13-6, taking the Tartans to overtime, but visitors had the most important shot, scoring in the 93^rd minute to defeat the Judges, 1-0, in University Athletic Association (UAA) action. Brandeis falls to 7-4 on the season, 1-2 in the UAA, while CMU improves to 9-2, 1-2 UAA. The Judges drop to 0-2 in OT games, while that Tartans rise to 3-2.

In the first half, Brandeis outshot Carnegie Mellon, 5-2, though both of the Tartans' attempts were on net. Senior Taylor Bracken (No. Andover, Mass./St. Johns Prep) made a diving stop in the 28^th minute off CMU junior Ian Epperson (Bethesda, Md./Walt Whitman) to keep the game square.

After intermission, Brandeis picked up their intensity, firing seven shots on Tartan sophomore Zach Stahl (East Brunswick, N.J./East Brunswick). Judge junior midfielder Theo Terris (Concord, Mass./Concord-Carlisle) was the stymied by Stahl three times in just under two minutes, including a strike on a free kick from about 25 yards out that Stahl deflected away from the lower left corner. Stahl came up big on another blast from outside the box in the 62^nd minute, corralling a shot by sophomore midfielder Joe Eisenbies (Hingham, Mass./Hingham), but back-to-back stops on senior Steve Keuchkarian (Watertown, Mass./Watertown) and the ensuing rebound by Terris, both from close range, kept the Judges at bay in the 64^th minute.

At that stage in the game, Brandeis owned a 12-2 shot advantage. Carnegie Mellon started to get their offense back on track in the final 15 minutes, as Bracken made a couple of fine saves on Tartan rookies Max Tassano (Bala Cynwyd, Pa./Lower Merion) and Cole Christensen (Denver, Colo./Rock Canyon). The latter boomed a free kick from near midfield into the box that Bracken snatched away in the 79^th. Stahl made seven second-half saves, while Bracken had two, finishing with four for the game.

The decisive play in overtime came at the 92:15 mark. CMU junior midfielder Carmen Minella (Pittsburgh, Pa./Chartiers Valley) earned a corner kick, which he sent into the mix. Tartan sophomore midfielder Moni Sallam (Clarksville, Md./River Hill) out-leaped the Brandeis defense to get a head on the ball, burying it for his first collegiate goal.

Brandeis returns to action with a game against their third-straight nationally-ranked opponent, ninth-ranked Emory, in a UAA contest Sunday at 1:30 p.m. CMU heads to NYU at the same time in league play.