ORLANDO,\u00a0Fla.\u00a0(May\u00a029, 2026)\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Bay FC fell 3-1 Friday on the road to the Orlando Pride\u00a0in\u00a0the club\u2019s\u00a0final contest before the June international break. A strong first half saw the club\u00a0battle through wet and humid conditions and\u00a0answer\u00a0an early score from the hosts, taking a 1-1 deadlock into halftime. Two goals by Orlando in the first ten minutes of the second half proved to be the deciders, although Bay FC put the Pride on its heels as time ticked down.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cObviously disappointed and frustrated with the outcome,\u201d said head coach Emma Coates. \u201c[I]\u00a0thought\u00a0was a game of two halves.\u00a0This group,\u00a0we\u2019ve\u00a0faced a lot of adversity over the last week,\u00a0it\u2019s\u00a0been an intense week for us.\u00a0I still stand by\u00a0we\u2019re\u00a0making progress and headed in the right direction, and\u00a0I\u2019m\u00a0confident that\u00a0we\u2019ll\u00a0start getting points on the board in the, in the next block of games.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
After a weather delay pushed back the opening whistle for over an hour,\u00a0a fast start saw both teams generate chances early in the match.\u00a0Orlando\u00a0opened the scoring\u00a0in just the fourth minute of play, as forward Barbra Banda\u00a0ran onto a bouncing ball played forward and slotted it in with her first touch.\u00a0However,\u00a0Bay FC answered the score just three minutes later,\u00a0with\u00a0midfielder Caroline\u00a0Conti netting her first goal of the year after a failed clearance by Orlando\u00a0fell\u00a0to her in space.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Conti\u2019s goal was the first of her career in the run of play\u00a0and first in regular season play in 2026. All three of her tallies in 2025 came from the penalty spot, as did her penalty score in the club\u2019s April friendly vs. Northern Super League side Ottawa Rapid FC.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Bay FC thought they had found the net for the lead at the 15-minute mark after the club built up the center of the pitch once again. Forward Racheal Kundananji ran onto a through ball on the right flank and served to defender Sydney Collins\u00a0on the back post, who put it through on a header before the offside flag came up to nullify the score and keep the match even.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
A fast start\u00a0in the second half\u00a0resulted in two scores for the Pride coming out of the break. Banda got out on the run from a ball played forward by substitute midfielder\u00a0Summer Yates,\u00a0scoring her second of the match in the 51st minute after winning\u00a0the footrace towards goal. Defender Cori Dyke put her name on the scoresheet four minutes later, putting in a shot off the crossbar and over the line after play came her way from a\u00a0throw-in in Bay FC territory.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Substitutes off the bench gave Bay FC a jolt as it looked to dent its second half deficit.\u00a0Forwards\u00a0Karlie Lema,\u00a0Onkeya\u00a0Gamero, and Keira Barry entered the match to put Orlando on its heels and helped Bay FC do just that. Lema\u00a0challenged Orlando keeper Anna Moorhouse after a\u00a0crafty through\u00a0ball into the box by fellow substitute Onyeka Gamero, who had entered the contest moments earlier. Conti came just\u00a0inches from a second score on the night in the 79th minute on a first-touch effort from outside the box but was denied by the woodwork.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
With\u00a0the NWSL schedule\u00a0set to pause\u00a0to\u00a0accommodate\u00a0international play in June, Bay FC returns to the pitch next on July 5.\u00a0The club will visit Boston Legacy FC in Providence, Rhode Island for the first of two straight road matches,\u00a0before returning home to take on the North Carolina Courage July 18.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Orlando Pride v Bay FC\u00a0<\/p>\n
May\u00a029, 2026\u00a0<\/p>\n
Inter&Co\u00a0Stadium, Orlando, Fla.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Kickoff:\u00a05:13 p.m. PT \/ 8:13 p.m. ET\u00a0<\/p>\n
Weather:\u00a074\u00a0degrees,\u00a0cloudy\u00a0<\/p>\n
Attendance:\u00a08,140\u00a0<\/p>\n
Discipline\u00a0<\/p>\n
None\u00a0<\/p>\n
Scoring Summary\u00a0<\/p>\n
ORL \u2013 Banda (Luana) 4\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n
BAY \u2013 Conti 7\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n
ORL \u2013 Banda (Yates) 51\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n
ORL \u2013 Dyke (Banda) 55\u2019\u00a0\u00a0\ue113<\/p>\n
Goals\u00a01\u00a02\u00a0F\u00a0Orlando Pride\u00a01\u00a02\u00a03\u00a0Bay FC1\u00a00\u00a01\u00a0<\/p>\n
Starting Lineups\u00a0<\/p>\n
Orlando Pride: Moorhouse, Dyke, Mace\u00a0(Chavoshi\u00a074\u2019), Rafelle, Oihane\u00a0(Anderson 33\u2019), Lemos, McCutcheon (C), Luana\u00a0(Doyle 65\u2019), Banda, Payne\u00a0(Ovalle 74\u2019), Abello\u00a0(Yates 45\u2019)\u00a0<\/p>\n
Unused Substitutes:\u00a0Crone, Marta,\u00a0Castain, Jackson\u00a0<\/p>\n
Bay FC:\u00a0Allen, Moreau, Anderson\u00a0(Bailey 62\u2019), Courtnall, Collins (C), Bebar, Hutton, Huff\u00a0(Lema 62\u2019),\u00a0Kundananji\u00a0(Barry 74\u2019),\u00a0Girelli\u00a0(Gamero 74\u2019), Conti\u00a0(Hubly\u00a082\u2019)\u00a0<\/p>\n
Unused Substitutes:\u00a0Miller,\u00a0Boade, Shepherd\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO,\u00a0Fla.\u00a0(May\u00a029, 2026)\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Bay FC fell 3-1 Friday on the road to the Orlando Pride\u00a0in\u00a0the club\u2019s\u00a0final contest before the June…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289769,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[139,141,140],"class_list":["post-289768","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\/289768","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=289768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}