Rams Fall to Bonnies

Box Score

Hannah Missry connected on a season-high six three-pointers while Emily Tapio and Abigail Corning added 14 points apiece, but the Rams fell to St. Bonaventure 74-67 on the road Saturday afternoon.
 
Leading by two with seven minutes on the clock, the Rams went scoreless for nearly five minutes, allowing the Bonnies to score ten unanswered and build an insurmountable lead late in the contest.
 
Erin Rooney and Samantha Clark also finished in double figures for the Rams, scoring 11 and ten points, respectively.

The game marked the second time this season that all five starters finished in double figures for the Rams, with the first coming on November 17^th against Pacific.
 
The Rams put on a shooting clinic from beyond the arc, sinking 12 threes on 28 tries, their second-highest total of the year.
 
Katie Healey connected on nine of her 18 attempts from the floor and nine of her ten attempts from the line for the Bonnies, finishing with a game-high 27 points.

The Rams came out on fire to start the first half, hitting five of their first eight field goal attempts to grab a 12-6 lead just inside the 16 minute mark.  Missry and Corning each connected on a three pointer during that stretch.
 
The Bonnies slowly whittled away at the Fordham advantage, narrowing the lead to one, 17-16, on an Emily Michael three pointer with 10:47 to go in the half.
 
The two squads traded leads a few times over the next several minutes, but five unanswered points gave St. Bonaventure its first substantial advantage of the contest, taking a 25-21 lead with five and a half minutes to go in the half.  Overall, the Bonaventure run capped at 9-2 with the Bonnies holding a 29-23 lead with 4:18 on the clock.
 
But the Rams would not go quietly into the locker room.  Coach Gaitley's squad outscored the Bonnies 10-4 over the closing minutes, capped by an ill-advised Katie Healey foul at the buzzer that gave Rooney three shots with no time on the clock.  The redshirt senior made all three and the Rams and Bonnies entered the break tied at 33.
 
The Rams unleashed a three-point barrage to open up the second half, with Corning connecting on a pair and Missry adding one from beyond the arc, helping Fordham move ahead 46-42 with just under 15 minutes to go.
 
The contest remained tight for the next several minutes and the Bonnies eventually tied the score at 48 at the 11 minute mark of the half.  A few possessions  later, the Bonnies took their first lead of the period on a Chelsea Bowker three ball, making it 51-48, with just over nine minutes on the clock.
 
The Rams took the lead back, 55-53, a few minutes later on a Missry long ball, but Bowker answered right back with a three of her own to move the Bonnies ahead by one with 5:49 in the half.  Healey then made three the old fashioned way to put the Bonnies up 59-55 less than a minute later and a Nyla Rueter jumper pushed the Bonaventure run to 8-0 with four minutes to go in the game.  Just over a minute later, Rueter made another jumper to mark ten unanswered for the Bonnies.
 
The Rams would pull within four late, but the lead proved insurmountable and the Bonnies came out on top 74-67.

Fordham will next  be in action on Wednesday night, taking on the Billikens in Saint Louis.