Rattray Records Hat Trick in Clarkson's Win over RPI

Final	1	2	3	Final
Rensselaer (4-11-4, 1-4-2)	0	0	0	0
Clarkson (9-4-4, 5-3-1)	5	2	3	10

Scoring Summary
1st - 09:03	Baribeau, Juana (Clarkson)
1st - 13:31	Rattray, Jamie Lee (Clarkson)
1st - 15:29	Rattray, Jamie Lee (Clarkson)
1st - 16:35	Gagnon, Vanessa (Clarkson)
1st - 18:47	PP - Ptolemy, Katelyn (Clarkson)
2nd - 08:13	Skirrow, Danielle (Clarkson)
2nd - 19:03	Rattray, Jamie Lee (Clarkson)
3rd - 04:06	PP - Lambert, Christine (Clarkson)
3rd - 10:03	SH - Baribeau, Juana (Clarkson)
3rd - 15:29	Styner, Brittany (Clarkson)

Rensselaer	Clarkson
G: N/A A: N/A Sh: 3 Players (#14, #15, #20 - 2) Sv: Kelly O'Brien - 21	G: Jamie lee Rattray - 3 A: Brittany Styner - 4 Sh: Jamie lee Rattray - 11 Sv: Erica Howe - 6

TEAM STATISTICS	Rensselaer	Clarkson
Power Plays	0 for 3	2 for 6
Shorthanded Goals	0	1
Penalties (min)	7 (14)	3 (6)
Shots on Goal	11	37
Face Offs Won	25	25

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Potsdam, NY – Sophomore Jamie Lee Rattray (Kanata, ONT) scored two of her three goals in a five-goal first period as the Clarkson University Women’s Hockey team routed Rensselaer 10-0 in ECAC Hockey action Friday night at Cheel Arena.

The Golden Knights claimed their fourth consecutive win over the Engineers to improve to 9-4-4 overall and 5-3-1 in conference games, while the Engineers fell to 4-11-4 and 1-4-2. Clarkson looks to add to its two-game winning streak against Union College on Saturday.

Clarkson’s 10 goals were the second most in team history, and the most in 280 games, trailing only an 11-0 shutout against Sacred Heart in 2004, the program’s first season as a Division I program.

In the opening period, the puck seemed to be set exclusively in the RPI defensive end, though Clarkson didn’t get many good scoring chances in the first eight minutes. That would change considerably in the next 12 minutes as Clarkson poured on the offense en route to five goals in the first frame. Senior Juana Baribeau (Amos, QUE) started things off at 9:03 when she skated in on the right circle and got a shot off that was initially stopped by Rensselaer goalkeeper Kelly O’Brien. However, the rebound bounced out softly to Baribeau’s stick and she slid the puck over the end line for the unassisted marker. The goal was her fourth of the season and the 50th of her career.

Clarkson received its second goal of the contest on one of the niftier players of the season when Jamie Lee Rattray picked up the puck near center ice and skated in against a pair of defenders. Her individual effort wowed those in attendance as she controlled the puck, slipping it ahead and put a pair of moves on O’Brien before lifting it top shelf at 13:31, her seventh score of the season. Brittany Styner (Calgary, ALB) was awarded an assist on the goal.

Just a few minutes later, Rattray extended Clarkson’s lead to 3-0 as she one-timed the puck in on the stick side of O’Brien. Hailey Wood (Lethbridge, ALB) sent a pass over to Styner near the boards, and Styner ripped a pass through the slot to Rattray, who beat the defender covering her by ticking the puck into open net at 15:29.

The scoring barrage continued just a minute later as fans were just sitting back down after celebrating the third goal as Vanessa Gagnon (St. Constant, QUE) deflected the puck past O’Brien with assists going to Taylor Gedig (Kelowna, BC) and Danielle Skirrow (Trenton, ONT).

RPI looked to change its fortunes by pulling O’Brien, but the Engineers were whistled for the first penalty of the contest and Clarkson quickly took advantage as senior Katelyn Ptolemy (Dinsmore, SASK) scored her first goal of the season. Gabrielle Kosziwka (Limehouse, ONT) and Danielle Boudreau (Whitby, ONT) worked the puck around to Ptolemy who sniped a shot in from the blueline for a power-play goal at 18:47 and a 5-0 advantage.

The scoring slowed only slightly in the second period for Clarkson as the Knights tallied two more times to take a 7-0 advantage. Freshman Jennifer Shields (Ingersoll, ONT) stole a pass and rifled a shot from the left circle near the blue line and Danielle Skirrow alertly redirected the shot through a small gap at the near post for a score at 8:13. The scoring was quiet for the next 10 minutes, but Rattray finished off her hat trick with another impressive individual effort coming in on the far side of the ice and flipping the puck past O’Brien with just under a minute to go in the second period.

The third period saw RPI called on a pair of penalties, the second of which gave Clarkson its eight goal of the contest. Just 40 seconds into the power play, at 4:06 in the third, Katelyn Ptolemy took a shot from the blue line where she had scored earlier in the game, but this time the puck was deflected by freshman Christine Lambert (Thetford, ME) for her fourth goal of the season. Both teams changed goalies before the drop of the next puck with Brianna Piper replacing O’Brien for the second time in the contest and Clarkson freshman Emily Horn (Hamilton, ONT) seeing her first action of the season.

Clarkson closed out the contest with two more goals in the final 10 minutes, as Juana Baribeau scored a short-handed marker with 10:03 remaining, pushing the senior to within one point of the 100-point plateau. In the waning moments of the game, Brittany Styner joined the goal-scoring brigade, adding her first of the game and second of the season as she sniped a shot from just inside the circle.

Clarkson finished the game with a 37-11 edge in shots. Howe and Horn combined for 11 saves in the shutout, while O’Brien and Piper finished with 27 saves total.