Jamie Lee Rattray, the leading scorer for the Clarkson University Women's Hockey team, will miss the Golden Knights games at Northeastern and Boston College this week as she represents her country in international play. Rattray will be participating with Canada’s U-22 National Team at the 2012 Meco Cup in Fussen, Germany on January 3-8, 2012.

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 January 4, 2012

"Finally it's the opening day for the Meco Cup here in Germany, excited to get the tourney started and see what our team can do against all of our opponents. Our first game is against the tournament host, which is always a fun and exciting game to play in because generally the crowd is loud and dynamic and it's always exciting when you beat the host nation. Game day started the same as any other game day, with a pre game skate. Pre game skate was held at the local rink here in Fussen on the Halle rink of Arena Fussen. Today's skate was a quick 30 minute skate, filled with intensity and puck movement to get the hands and feet going for the game tonight. You could tell we were ready to get the tourney underway. Later that afternoon around 4 local time it was time to board the bus and head to a nearby town called Sonthofen (which was about 45 minutes outside of Fussen) to play our first game. The game was held in a different community to try and spread the women's game. Got off to a pretty good start in the game, I was playing on a line with Jill Saulnier and Mallory Delluce, the same lines we had played with against Team Slovakia, was excited because we have been playing really well together. The first goal we saw was a great slapshot from Saulnier from the high slot, was a beauty. From here things started to come together; we stuck to our game plan and moved the puck quickly to attack the Germans. The second goal was scored off a penalty shot by Chelsea Karpenko in the second period after being tripped up on a breakaway. She made a great move to go five hole to the German goalie. The other goals were also beauties as Menard finished off a one timer in the slot and Nicole Kosta buried her own rebound late in the third to make it a 4-1 game. Overall, it was a great first game for us as we got our first win under our belts, couple minor things to tweek before we see the Russians next. We just need to keep shooting and the offense is going to keep coming. This was an amazing experience as the rink and the town are very unique, unique many ways..... like try using a bench that only has one door...right in the middle of the bench. Even with the single door still was able to manage as the forwards and the d both had to jump and our door opener had to be alert as the d and forwards were both coming her way. Overall after a cold 3 periods....the town of Sonthofen was a success as 2300 fans showed up for the game and we came out with the win."