{"id":215049,"date":"2026-04-01T21:08:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T21:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/215049\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T21:08:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T21:08:11","slug":"baylor-esports-advances-to-nace-national-championship-in-orlando","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/215049\/","title":{"rendered":"Baylor Esports advances to NACE National Championship in Orlando"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Baylor University Esports punched its ticket to Orlando after defeating Lesley University in Rocket League, 3-1, in a best-of-five series. <\/p>\n<p>WACO, Texas \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcentv.com\/article\/news\/local\/baylor-esports-rocket-league-championship-hawaii-esports-invitational\/500-a4f1b1e0-e8f3-4062-92be-b3d05f318787\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Baylor Esports<\/a> topped Lesley University Tuesday night in a best-of-five series in Rocket League 3-1 to advance to the National Association of Collegiate Esports (NACE) National Championship in Orlando, Florida, taking place on April 23 and 24.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The qualifying matchup took place at Nexus in Waco, a full LAN center close to the Baylor campus.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After winning game one, Lesley took game two. Baylor responded by striking early in game three, and in game four the Bears went ahead 2-0 before Lesley rallied to even the score with two seconds left. In overtime, Baylor secured the win.<\/p>\n<p>Baylor rosters a three-person Rocket League team comprised of professional gamers Colby &#8220;hockser&#8221; James, Andrew &#8220;Andy&#8221; Nolan, and Kadin &#8220;Zineel&#8221; Zineelabidine. The head coach is Adam Stanley.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The win puts Baylor among the top eight teams slated to compete for the championship.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Baylor University Esports punched its ticket to Orlando after defeating Lesley University in Rocket League, 3-1, in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215050,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[139,141,140],"class_list":["post-215049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}