WATERBURY, Conn. -- It has been a year to remember for the Post University ESports Orange Rocket League Team. After a fall season that saw them finish 3-4 in the ECAC, but 9-0 in the NECC which helped them earn their first Northeast Championship in the NECC and first perfect season in program history, the Eagles qualified for the NECC National Championship which took place over the last few weeks.

But the lead-up to the championship was rocky as the squad was hammered in ECAC play this spring to the tune of a 1-5 record while going 2-6 in NECC play heading into the National Tournament in mid-April. 

Starting on April 16th against the University of New Haven, a team Post had lost to 3-0 earlier in the spring, the Eagles flipped the script on the Chargers with a 4-0 win to kick off the tournament which had 98 teams.

Each Rocket League match consists of five minutes of three-on-three action in which both teams use their cars to try to score more goals than their opponent. Every matchup against another school is a seven-game series with those parameters as a team must be the first to win four matches to earn the team win for their school. In other words, the Eagles swept through New Haven and then pretty much did not look back from there.

10 days later against New Mexico State University, it was the same result with the Eagles getting a 4-0 win and then a week after that, Post suffered their first and only loss of the tournament as it took them five games to dispatch Oklahoma Wesleyan University in the National Semifinals matchup on May 2nd, 4-1. 

Last Friday, the very next day, with the National Championship on the line, it was the Eagles trouncing their opponent once more as they rolled to a 4-0 sweep of Washington University in St. Louis to seal their first NECC National Championship title in school history and Rocket League history. 

The champion team for the Eagles consisted of Bill Koch, who also plays for the Post University Men's Golf team, Gotti Cruz, and Nicholas Laferte.