The first game of the 2013 Women's Basketball Foreign Tour concluded in thrilling fashion on Sunday, as Samantha Clark banked a last-second layup to lift the Rams to a double overtime victory over the Geelong Supercats in Geelong, Australia.
 
Seniors Erin Rooney and Abigail Corning paced the Rams, as Corning scored a game-high 18 points while Rooney poured in 17.

"They stepped up," Head Coach Stephanie Gaitely said of her two seniors. "They're obviously our veterans.  They took the open shots, they played hard and they left it out there."
 
Geelong got on the board to open the contest, but Rooney responded with her first points of the game from deep to give the Rams an early 3-2 lead just over a minute in.  The rest of the first quarter, however, was all Supercats, as Geelong closed the period on a 9-2 run to take a 17-10 lead after one.
 
Despite the unfavorable start, the Rams came alive in the second quarter.  Corning went 6-7 from the field, as the Wethersfield, Conn., native led Fordham with 12 points in a period that saw the Rams rattle off a 17-4 run to close the half. 
 
Fordham led 31-28 at the break.  Corning's 12 points topped the Rams in the opening stanzas, while Rooney added 11 in the first two quarters.
 
The third quarter proved to be a back-and-forth affair, as the two squads traded buckets before Geelong used a 6-0 run to pull ahead 42-41 heading into the fourth.
 
The Supercats converted on one of two free throws to start the fourth, extending their lead to two, 43-41 with nine minutes to go.  Then, Corning scored back-to-back buckets, the second on a fabulous fast break pass from Rooney, to jumpstart a 6-0 run and put the Rams up four, 47-43, with five minutes to go.
 
Geelong then recorded a 8-0 stretch of their own, pulling ahead by four with just two and a half minutes left on the clock.
 
Then, the upperclassmen came up in a huge way once again.  Corning nailed a jumper before Rooney scored the team's last four points, capping a 6-2 stretch that saw regulation end in a 53-53 tie. 
 
Playing only two-minute overtimes, neither team found the bottom of the bucket in the first extra period. 
 
The second overtime appeared it was going to end the same way as the first, scoreless, as the Rams and Supercats remained tied with just ten seconds to go.   Then, a poorly-timed turnover from Geelong gave the Rams possession of the ball on the sideline with just five seconds to play.  With Corning on the inbound, Clark ducked behind her defender, corralling Corning's pass and laying it in off glass to secure the Fordham victory.
 
Following this afternoon's win, the Rams will be back in action tomorrow, taking on the Melbourne Boomers at 7 PM local time.