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September 14, 2013 – WOW. There are many ledes that could be written for today's Fordham-Temple football game at Lincoln Financial Field but that is the one that seems to be most appropriate is a simple, all uppercase, WOW. With four seconds left, quarterback Mike Nebrich found wide receiver Sam Ajala in the endzone with a touchdown pass and Michael Marando added the PAT to earn the school's first ever win over an NCAA FBS team, 30-29.
 
Last Tuesday, as the team was exiting the practice field, head coach Joe Moorhead commented that the players didn't realize that they were going to go on the road and have chance to beat an NCAA FBS team. Somehow between Tuesday and Saturday, the Rams received that message as Fordham used an explosive offense, gaining over 500 total yards, and a bend-but-don't break defense, in a game that featured more reviews than an opening night Broadway play, to advance to 3-0 for the first time since 1988.
 

The last time the Rams defeated a team in what is now known as the FBS was when Fordham opened the 1954 season with a 13-7 win over Rutgers. Since making the move to the NCAA FCS (originally I-AA) in 1989, the Rams have played five games against FBS opponents (Buffalo in 1993 and 1995, Army and UConn in 2011 and Cincinnati last year), dropping all five.

Nebrich quarterbacked the offensive outburst, completing 23 of 36 passes for a career-high 320 yards and two scores while senior Carlton Koonce rushed 27 times for 168 yards and one touchdown.

Ajala led all receivers in the game with seven catches for 134 yards and the game-winning score while Tebucky Jones grabbed seven passes for 105 yards.
 
After a relatively low scoring first half, the second half went back and forth, and it seemed likely that the team with the ball last would win, which is almost what happened. Trailing 29-23 with 13 seconds left, the Rams lined up at the Temple 29 where Nebrich took the snap and rolled out of the pocket to the right. Just before he got hit, he lofted a pass to the end zone that seemed to be intended for junior Brian Wetzel. But Ajala outleaped his defender and came down with the ball in the end zone for the score to tie the game at 29.
 
Temple called a time out before junior Michael Marando was able to attempt the point after and then asked for a review to determine whether Ajala was pushed out of bounds or went out on his on the scoring play (the third review of the drive). When the touchdown was upheld by the replay official, the Owls again try to ice Marando by calling a time out before his attempt. But following the second time out, Joseph's Sullivan's snap to Wetzel was perfect and Marando calmly put the ball through the uprights to put Fordham up 30-29.
 

The Owls still had one last chance as they fell on the ensuing kickoff on their own 25 but DeAndre Slate, one of just three Fordham pass rushers, got to Temple quarterback Connor Reilly and sacked him to end the game.
 
Stephen Hodge led the Fordham defense with eleven tackles, nine solo, including one sack and he forced a fumble and broke up a pass. Victor DiFusco added eight tackles for the Rams while Hancock finished with seven.
 

 
 
Volleyball's Morgan Williams Sets School Match Digs Record
 

September 14, 2019 (Hanover, N.H.) – Though it was just one year ago today, it was another record-setting moment for last year's Fordham volleyball squad, with senior libero Morgan Williams becoming the first Ram to record 40 or more digs in a single match and the entire team combining for a four-set match record of 103 digs, a figure only outdone three times over five sets in program history. In the final match of the Dartmouth Invitational, Fordham downed the hosts, 25-21, 25-23, 19-25, 25-19.
 
Williams, who now holds every digs record at Fordham, finished with 42 against the Big Green, besting Maria Rodenberg's previous record of 38 over five sets in 2013, and shattered the previous four-set record of 33 that she had just set two weeks prior at Georgia State.
 
Four other Rams finished with double-digit digs – senior Kaitlin Morley racked up 19 to go with her 11 kills, McKenna Lahr and Megan Brzozowski each had 14 and a double-double with, respectively, a team-high 14 kills and 25 assists, while Makaela Tanaka also double-doubled with 18 assists and 10 digs.
 
 
Water Polo's Justin Boyer records school record 14 steals
 

Cambridge, Mass. – (September 14, 1996) – In a thrilling match led by a record breaking performance by Justin Boyer, the Fordham water polo team outlasted the MIT Engineers, 14-13, to take home a road victory.
 
Boyer had the big day, not only scoring five times to go with two assists, but also adding a school record 14 steals in the match.  It was one of multiple double-digit steal performances by Boyer in 1996 as he eventually finished with a single season record 160 by season's end and was the team MVP award winner.
 
The game was won late by Mike Aldax's fourth goal of the contest to go with two assists and three steals.  Trevor Freeman added three goals and a steal with Kevin O'Neil and Mike Hayes rounding out the scoring with one goal apiece.  In net, Erick Lichty came up with six saves in the win.