New for the 2011-2012 seasons, the America East Daily Word, a collaboration between AmericaEast.com and AExtra, will recap the previous day's games and on goings on our nine campuses and provide links to previews, recaps, features and exclusive coverage.

A rookie throws a no-hitter for his first career win and a women’s lacrosse upset – an eventful spring weekend in late March for the America East.

We’ll start first in Baltimore, where the UMBC women’s lacrosse team took on Albany for the first time since the Great Danes beat the Retrievers in the league title game last May. A close game was expected and the fans who braved the rainy Saturday afternoon drizzle saw exactly that.

A four-all tie in the early stages of the second half provided the Retrievers with a stage to pull off the upset of No. 13 Albany. UMBC scored three unanswered goals and pumped in a fourth for good measure to defeat Albany, 8-5. It was the Retrievers’ first win over the Danes since the 2010 conference semifinals.

The Baltimore Sun has a full recap from UMBC Stadium.

Head to New Haven, Conn., now where the Hartford baseball team searched for a double-header split with host Yale. The Bulldogs took game one, 4-1 in eight innings but would run into a Hawk buzzsaw on the bump in game two.

Rookie southpaw Sean Newcomb got the ball in game two, making his fifth start of the season. Newcomb fired the first no-hitter in Hartford’s Division I history as he tossed seven innings of 10-strikeout ball surrendering just two walks and two hit batters all day. Mike Anthony of the Hartford Courant spoke with the first-year fire baller.

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