PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Cornell rallied from a two-touchdown second half deficit to send the game into double overtime, but Brown used key special teams plays and an opportunistic offense in the extra sessions to claim a 28-21 victory on Saturday afternoon at Brown Stadium. The Big Red fell to 3-3 (1-2 Ivy), while the Bears improved to 2-4 (1-2 Ivy).

Brown did not have a scoring drive of longer than 49 yards, though it scored on a 79-yard Alex Jette punt return and got kick returns of 45 and 46 yards by Terrell Smith. Jette scored three times for the Bears, with touchdown catches of 18 and 2 yards to go along with the punt return.

The defense, which defended six drives that started inside Cornell territory and yielded just seven points off those drives, got a career-high 15 tackles with 2.5 for a loss and a sack from sophomore Reis Seggebruch and 14 tackles and an interception from Nick Gesualdi. Jackson Weber added 10 tackles, including one for a loss, and Kurt Frimel made six stops with a TFL, a forced fumble and a fumble recovery. The Cornell defense surrendered just 354 yards on the day, forced a pair of turnovers and had seven tackles for loss.

Sophomore Dalton Banks completed 21-of-37 passes for 201 yards and three touchdowns, but was also intercepted twice. Seniors Marshall Deutz, Ben Rogers and Matt Sullivan each had touchdown catches and sophomore Chris Walker ran for 75 yards. When the offense was forced to punt, Chris Fraser averaged 41.7 yards per kick with two of his seven downed inside the 20.

WIll Twyman, the Ivy League's leading tackler, added 17 stops to his total and had 2.5 for a loss to lead Brown. Jette had 196 all-purpose yards and Linta threw a pair of touchdowns.

Most of the first half was played in a torrential downpour on grass, and the Big Red struggled to find its footing on offense. The defense, meanwhile, defended a short field three times successfully only to watch the Bears go into the half up 7-0 after Alex Jette's electric 79-yard punt return with less than a minute left in the first half.

The Bears outgained the Big Red 151-66 in a half full of slips and slides, with backup Brown receiver Livingstone Harriott giving the home team a burst of energy with seven carries for 69 yards out of the wildcat formation. Combined, the two teams completed just four passes in the first 30 minutes.

Chris Walker had a team-high 54 rushing yards to lead the Big Red, but Brown controlled the clock (18:35-11:25) and created two takeaways without turning the ball over.

As the rain dispersed, Cornell's passing game was able to move the ball. After the Bears extended the lead to 14-0 less than two minutes into the second half, the Big Red answered with the lone extended scoring drive either team would have all day. Cornell went 85 yards on 10 plays, capped off by a 9-yard pass from Banks to Matt Sullivan to get the visitors on the board.

The Big Red tied the game six minutes later after Kurt Frimel forced a turnover and brought the fumble back 71 yards to the Brown 8. Three plays later, Banks hit Rogers for a 5-yard score and Nickolas Null banged home the extra-point to knot the score at 14-14.

It stayed that way, but not without some drama.

A go-ahead Big Red field goal attempt by Null from 33 yards out was blocked with 3:50 to play. Two plays later, Gesualdi picked off his fifth pass of the season and 10th of his career at the Brown 48. That drive went nowhere, but All-American Chris Fraser pinned the Bears at their own 10.

Brown used a Cornell pass interference call and a 27-yard run on third-and-10 to get into field goal range, but Jake Hall shanked a 38-yarder with 0:03 left to send the game into overtime.

One there, the Big Red struck first. After picking up a third-and-8 with an 11-yard gain from Banks to Collin Shaw, the sophomore quarterback found senior Marshall Deutz in the back left corner of the end zone to go up 21-14. The Big Red defense allowed a 23-yard pass play on the ensuing drive, but kept Brown out of the end zone on three straight plays to force a fourth-and-goal from the 2. After a Brown timeout, Linta hit Jette for the tying score.

Back on offense, Brown again found the end zone after switching ends of the field. Johnny Pena's 2-yard run made it 28-21 after the Brown PAT.

Cornell took over and picked up a first down after converting a four-and-1, but three straight incompletions set up a fourth-and-10 at the Brown 14. Banks hit his target, Deutz, but the senior was tackled two yards short of the first down and the Bears rushed the field to celebrate.

Notes
• Junior Nick Gesualdi had his 10th career interception (fifth in 2016) to move to seventh on the all-time list, while his five interceptions this year is tied for 10th in Cornell history.
• Sophomore Dalton Banks had his second career three-touchdown passing game.
• Both sophomore Reis Seggebruch (15) and Gesualdi (14) set career highs in tackles in a game.
• Senior Chris Fraser had a pair of punts longer than 50 yards, giving him a school-record 42 (closest to him is Mike Baumgartel with 11).
• The Big Red defense held Brown to a 1-of-5 day scoring in the red zone.
• The 3:50 game time is tied for the longest by a Cornell team since 1996.
• Brown extended its win streak over the Big Red to nine games.
• Cornell turned the Bears over on fourth downs four times during the game.

Big Red In Overtime
• Cornell played its 11th overtime game in program history, dropping to 5-6 in games that go an extra session.
• The Big Red's last overtime win was at Brown, a 38-31 victory over the Bears on Schoellkopf FIeld in 2007.
• Cornell lost its first-ever multi-overtime game after winning its first four games to head into a second overtime,
• The Big Red is now 2-1 in OT games against Brown, 1-4 on the road and 3-4 against Ivy teams.
• Cornell has lost three straight overtime games.


Next Up
• Cornell begins its final stretch of three home games in the final four weekends when Princeton visits Schoellkopf Field on Saturday, Oct. 29 at 12:30 p.m.
• The game will be televised by OneWorld Sports and will be simulcast on the Ivy League Digital Network.
• The Tigers lead the all-time series 60-36-2 after a 47-21 Princeton win last season, its third straight win over the Big Red.