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

America East men’s lacrosse teams have two wins over ranked opponents this year -  UMBC downed then No. 4 Maryland back in early March in what Inside Lacrosse called the upset of the year in college lacrosse earlier this week, while Stony Brook defeated then No. 18 Delaware as well.

Albany gets a shot to pick up the third victory overa  ranked team when it travels to take on No. 3 Johns Hopkins tonight on ESPN3. Watch Here

The Great Danes enter Thursday night’s game coming of their first win of the season, a conference opening 12-11 victory over Binghamton this weekend. Miles Thompson scored four goals and Joe Restarits added a hat trick and two assists to power Albany.

This will be Albany’s fifth game against a nationally ranked opponent having already seen the likes of Syracuse, UMass, Yale and Bucknell this season. The Danes came closest to the upset in the season opener against the Orange falling 12-7 in Syracuse.

Albany head coach Scott Marr, a 1991 graduate of Johns Hopkins, played on the 1987 Blue Jay national championship team and led the Great Danes to their only win over Hopkins in the 2007 season opener.

First face off from Baltimore is scheduled for 7 p.m.

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