{"id":412546,"date":"2026-09-28T05:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T05:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/412546\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T05:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T05:34:08","slug":"bay-fc-eliminated-from-nwsl-playoff-chase-with-3-1-loss-to-orlando-pride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/412546\/","title":{"rendered":"Bay FC eliminated from NWSL playoff chase with 3-1 loss to Orlando Pride"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Orlando Pride\u2019s Haley McCutcheon scored two goals to not only help hand Bay FC<\/a> a 3-1 loss on Sunday but end the Bay Area squad\u2019s faint hopes of making the NWSL playoffs<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Bay FC (7-14-5) will miss the postseason<\/a> for the second straight season after it clinched a playoff berth in its inaugural 2024 season.<\/p>\n

Orlando (10-13-3), sitting two spots ahead of Bay in 11th place in the chase to become one of the league\u2019s eight playoff teams, wasted no time in making things tough on Bay. After the Pride\u2019s Solai Washington laid it off to McCutcheon, the 30-year-old midfielder struck it into the side netting for a 1-0 lead just two minutes in.<\/p>\n

The 13th-place Bay did manage to answer quickly when forward Racheal Kundananji evened the match at 1-1 in spectacular fashion in the 11th minute. Bay\u2019s Claire Hutton placed a perfect cross toward the back post for Kundananji for the diving header to square the match and ignite the crowd at PayPal Park. It was Kundananji\u2019s third goal of the season.<\/p>\n

But for a couple of close misses around the 30-minute mark, Bay FC could have forged ahead. Forward Karlie Lema\u2019s attempt was saved, and moments later forward Alex Pfeiffer beat a defender but her shot just missed the frame.<\/p>\n

McCutcheon scored her second goal just two minutes after the halftime break. On a Pride corner kick, McCutcheon headed in a crossing pass by Angelina to make it 2-1.<\/p>\n

Orlando made things academic in second-half stoppage time when Jacquie Ovalle\u2019s right-footed blast found the back of the net.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Orlando Pride\u2019s Haley McCutcheon scored two goals to not only help hand Bay FC a 3-1 loss…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[9636,163527,4535,9635,114,139,141,140,26780,9638,2062,9639,110],"class_list":["post-412546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-bay-area","tag-bay-fc","tag-california","tag-inside-sports","tag-latest-headlines","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-san-jose","tag-santa-clara-county","tag-soccer","tag-south-bay","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412546","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=412546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}