PASADENA, Calif.  It took a little extra time but Whitman College's men's soccer team earned its first win of the fall in its non-conference season opener Friday afternoon, taking down host California Institute of Technology by a count of 4-3 in overtime on the Beavers' home turf at South Field. Ridley Eastland-Fruit tapped in the game-winner off a cross from the left touch line by Jimmy Jacobson who had scored the opening goal of the contest.

The wide-open game turned shortly after Caltech nabbed its first lead of the contest, at 3-2, on a goal in the 54th minute. A red card on the Beavers' Schaeffer Reed four minutes later left Whitman spending nearly the entirety of the remaining minutes in its attacking end. Caltech failed to register even one shot after the card.

Peppering Caltech goalkeeper J.D. Feist with shots finally came to a head in in the 80th when an Eric Conte cross resulted in a tap-in by Ben Freedman to pull Whitman even.

Until the Beavers' score early in the second half it was Whitman that held the advantage for much of the game. Jacobson notched his first collegiate goal, off an assist from Conte, in the 17th minute to provide visiting Whitman with a brief lead. Just one minute later, however, Kevin Yu of Caltech curled a shot from the right side into the top, left corner of the frame to even the score at 1-1. Whitman's Luca Barsher provided the visitors a 2-1 advantage in the 29th but Caltech responded with an equalizing marker shortly  before the halftime intermission.

Whitman piled up shot after shot over the course of the game -- finishing with a 29-7 advantage -- but Feist kept the home team in the game by making 10 saves, and getting assistance from teammates who safely knocked away a pair of certain goals that had got behind Feist.

In the Whitman defensive end newcomer Owen Davis-Bower earned the start and made two saves against two goals allowed. He gave way at the start of the second half to first-year Jack Filipponi who played into the OT period and earned the win.

Whitman's swing through Southern California continues Saturday with a visit to Cal Lutheran University for a 7 p.m. non-conference contest against the Kingsmen.