Coach Todd Bramble said he was proud of this year’s team and its success.
“They were a really, really enjoyable group to coach,” he said. “They were trying to do some things that no Alabama team had done before, we saw that right at the beginning of the conference season and on the road. I was really proud of the way this team represented itself this year.”
In the first half of the match, Ally Ocon scored the Crimson Tide’s first goal off an assist by Merel van Dongen. Theresa Diederich scored Alabama’s second goal shortly after the second half started.
Tennessee scored all three of its goals in the final 30 minutes of the match.
The last time Alabama met with Tennessee, the Crimson Tide won 1-0 in double overtime.
Of the 10 matches Alabama won, five were road victories.
“I think a lot of it had to do with the beginning of our season when we went to Orange Beach for our preseason, and that kind of set the tone for what our expectations were going to be like,” Diederich said.
Alabama loses five seniors this year, including Van Dongen, Pia Rijsdijk and Maruschka Waldus, who posted a combined total of eight goals for the season. Diederich and Laura Lee Smith are the other two seniors.
