OBERLIN, Ohio – The Kenyon College Lords soccer team scored the game-winning goal with three seconds left in the second overtime to defeat the No. 15-ranked Oberlin College Yeomen, 3-2, in Tuesday night's important North Coast Athletic Conference contest at Fred Shults Field.

The result put Kenyon and Oberlin in a tie for second place in the NCAC standings, each with nine points and 3-1-0 records. The teams trail only first-place Ohio Wesleyan University, which has a 3-0-2 record and 11 points. Overall, Kenyon is now 10-2-0 and Oberlin is 10-2-1. The result also kept Kenyon unbeaten in its last 12 games against Oberlin. The last time the Yeomen defeated a Kenyon team was late in the 2006 season.

As the final seconds of the clock ticked down in the second overtime, the teams, as well as the ball boys, were having a difficult time figuring out whether the official was calling for a goal kick or a corner kick. Meanwhile, Kenyon sophomore David Anderson rushed to the right corner to set up one final Kenyon attempt, but another ball came on to the field from a ball boy who thought a goal-kick was signaled.

Anderson ended up sending the corner in with one second left, but the official stopped play and asked that eight seconds be put back on the clock. Anderson got a less-hurried re-do and sent his corner kick to the far side of the box. It was booted around a couple times before junior Oliver Wynn got a clean shot off and found the back of the Oberlin net.

That was the ninth corner kick of the game for the Lords, compared to just one for Oberlin. Kenyon also dominated the shot chart, racking up 33 to Oberlin's 10. Seven of Kenyon's 33 shots came in the overtime periods. Oberlin was unable to record a shot over the game's final 33 minutes.

Despite the discrepancy in the game's statistics, Oberlin was never out of it. The Yeomen drew first blood in the game's 28th minute. Taking a free kick from the right side, closer to the sideline than the box, Matthew Bach-Lombardo struck a low ball that, somehow, made it through all the traffic in the box without being touched. Expecting some sort of redirect, Kenyon keeper Sam Clougher was caught off guard when the ball just kept rolling all the way into the left corner of the Kenyon net.

Kenyon retaliated with a ton of pressure, but shots from Dalton Eudy, Will Bennett and Wynn were turned aside by Oberlin keeper Koryn Kraemer and the Yeomen defense. Henry Myers nearly broke through, but his header in the 38th minute rang off the crossbar.

Finally in the 43rd minute, Kenyon got on the board as freshman Philippe Stengel ran down the right edge of the Oberlin box and flicked a pass over to his left. His pass caught a streaking John Penas in stride and Penas finished the play for his second goal of the year.

Four minutes into the second half, Kenyon claimed its first lead. This time it was a corner kick from Eudy. He inserted the ball from the right side and placed it perfectly on target as sophomore Bret Lowry camped under it and headed it home.

As the two teams kept duking it out, it seemed Kenyon might collect the win in regulation. That changed, however, when the Lords were whistled for a handball in the Oberlin box. Nick Wertman wound up taking the penalty kick and he went right up the middle with it to tie the game at two. It was Wertman's conference-leading ninth goal of the season.

In goal, Kraemer was forced to make a career-high 14 saves for the Yeomen, who saw their ten-match unbeaten streak halted. Clougher needed to make just two saves for the Lords.

Next up for Kenyon is a Saturday trip to rival Denison University for a 5 p.m. game.