ORLANDO, Fla. (May 29, 2026)\u00a0\u2013\u00a0The\u00a0Orlando Pride (5-5-2, 17 points)\u00a0defeated Bay FC (3-6-2, 10 points) 3-1\u00a0on Friday night in their final match before the NWSL pauses\u00a0while\u00a0the 2026 FIFA Men\u2019s World Cup\u00a0is staged across North America.\u00a0Orlando\u00a0remains\u00a0unbeaten against Bay FC all-time, now holding a 4-0-1 record against the 2024 expansion side.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n
Barbra Banda opened the scoring in the fourth minute, giving the Pride an early edge. The forward controlled a headed ball from Luana and finished with a composed left-footed strike past a closing defender and over Bay FC goalkeeper\u00a0Emmie\u00a0Allen.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n
The visiting side responded quickly, equalizing just three minutes later through Caroline Conti to\u00a0level\u00a0the scoreline\u00a0heading\u00a0into the\u00a0halftime\u00a0break.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
After the restart, Banda restored the Pride\u2019s lead in the 51st minute, finishing a\u00a0well-weighted through ball from Summer Yates. Timing her run to break behind the back line, the forward forced the goalkeeper off her line before slotting a composed right-footed finish into an open net. The goal marked Banda\u2019s league-leading\u00a011th tally and her third\u00a0brace\u00a0of the 2026 campaign.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
Four minutes after Banda doubled the lead, defender Cori Dyke added a third, striking from the right edge of the box.\u00a0Following a throw-in,\u00a0Banda\u00a0played the ball to Dyke, setting her up to make it 3-1 and secure the result for the home side. The\u00a0goal\u00a0marked Dyke\u2019s first of the 2026 campaign and the second of her NWSL career.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
Following the\u00a0June international\u00a0break,\u00a0the Pride will travel to California to face Angel City FC on July 3\u00a0at BMO Stadium (10 p.m. ET | Prime Video).<\/p>\n
\n Head Coach Seb Hines:<\/p>\n
\u201cNo better\u00a0[birthday]\u00a0gift than a 3-1 victory at home in front of our fans, so\u00a0credit to\u00a0the players for putting that performance together.\u00a0It\u2019s\u00a0always nice to take the lead early, but there was disappointment with how quickly we conceded after scoring. I thought the first half was\u00a0fairly even, and I knew we could go to another level. We\u00a0didn\u2019t\u00a0quite show that\u00a0immediately\u00a0after conceding, but I thought we managed the second half well,\u00a0possessed\u00a0the ball better, earned the rewards for\u00a0it\u00a0and created some good opportunities. Overall,\u00a0I\u2019m\u00a0really pleased to head into the break with three points.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Pride will now enter a month-long break as the NWSL pauses its season for the 2026 Men\u2019s FIFA World Cup, with the Club\u2019s next match taking place on July 3 against Angel City FC at BMO Stadium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. (May 29, 2026)\u00a0\u2013\u00a0The\u00a0Orlando Pride (5-5-2, 17 points)\u00a0defeated Bay FC (3-6-2, 10 points) 3-1\u00a0on Friday night in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339927,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[137393,137227,139629,140062,137395,137394,100,39620,138991,88,90,89,138990],"class_list":["post-339926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-anna-moorhouse","tag-barbra-banda","tag-cori-dyke","tag-jacquie-ovalle","tag-kerry-abello","tag-luana","tag-news","tag-orlando-pride","tag-orlvsbay-05-29-2026","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-zara-chavoshi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}