Nine goals alone would be enough to talk about, but a wild Saturday night affair between John Carroll and Ohio Wesleyan ended the only way it could.

With flair.

Jesse Marinaro's header in the 109th minute sealed a 5-4 victory to keep John Carroll undefeated after six matches.

The Blue Streaks weathered an early push by Ohio Wesleyan to score the first goal of the contest. Jake Lombardo took a feed from Marinaro and finessed a touch that tracked across the line in the 15th minute. But the Battling Bishops answered on a strange play a minute later. Ryan Huelsman launched a throw deep into Blue Streaks territory that sailed over keeper Laim McIntosh, struck a JCU defender, and dribbled into the net.

In the 33rd minute, Lombardo struck again, this time on a beautiful combo play started by Marinaro. Chad Kanakkanatt tracked down a thru ball in the corner and knifed a pass to a cutting Lombardo who put John Carroll ahead 2-1.

JCU took that one goal lead into the break, and had a 10-6 shots advantage.

The Blue Streaks kept the pressure up, and when Hayden Parente scored just 3:15 into the second half to give the home squad a 3-1 advantage, all seemed well for the Shula Stadium faithful.

Ohio Wesleyan lived up to their moniker and battled back. Will Sharer took an unsuccessful clear attempt and pounded in a shot to cut the JCU lead in the 55th minute, and then the visitors erupted with two goals in a span of 53 seconds in the 75th and 76th minutes to wrestle the lead away from John Carroll.

The score remained 4-3 until the final three minutes. In desperation mode, the #7 ranked Blue Streaks finally got the equalizer at the 87:13 mark. Dalton Browsky headed a crossing pass that OWU keeper Mike Heeschen deflected, but Eric Roszits headed the deflected ball in to knot the score at 4-4.

The game went to overtime, and JCU dominated the proceeding until Marinaro scored the golden goal off a beautiful feed from Jake Girardot. 

John Carroll had a 23-14 edge in shots, including 5-1 in the two overtime periods. Corners were even at eight apiece.

The Blue Streaks are now 6-0 for the first time since 2000. Ohio Wesleyan falls to 3-3 with the loss.