The Alabama women’s soccer team completed its perfect run in the SEC regular season Thursday night.
A 1-0 win at Auburn made the Crimson Tide the first team to complete an undefeated league schedule since South Carolina in 2016. It was Alabama’s 13th straight win overall as it enters the SEC tournament with momentum.
At 17-1-1 and 10-0-0 in the SEC, Alabama is No. 3 in the women’s soccer RPI and the United Soccer Coaches poll.
The winning streak continued Thursday when Riley Tanner scored the game-winner in the 86th minute at Auburn. It was the third straight win for Alabama in the rivalry, a streak it last hit from 1996-99. Alabama goalkeeper McKinley Crone saved all three Auburn shots on goal for her school-record eighth shutout of the season.
The Tigers fell to 6-6-6 overall and 2-6-2 in SEC play.
The Tide will get the first-round bye in the SEC tournament that begins Oct. 30 in Pensacola. It will get the winner of the No. 8-seed Mississippi State-No. 9 seed Texas A&M at 5 p.m. CT Tuesday at the Ashton Brosnaham Soccer Complex.
A win would put Alabama into the Thursday semifinal with the championship game set for 1 p.m. CT on Nov. 6. South Carolina is the No. 2 seed on the other side of the bracket.
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Michael Casagrande is a reporter for the Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter @ByCasagrande or on Facebook.
