Michael Shipma
Sports Editor
The Troy soccer team concluded its 2016 season with a 0-1 loss at the hands of South Alabama in the first round of the Sun Belt Tournament on Wednesday.
The rivalry game, played in Mobile, went down to the final minutes of regulation before South Alabama’s Ashlynn Jones took full advantage of a defensive mistake along the backline. That put goalkeeper Mikki Lewis in a near-impossible one-on-one matchup.
Jones’ goal was one of seven shots the Jaguars (13-5-1, 8-3 Sun Belt) took in the second half, part of an 11-shot performance from the top-seeded team in the tournament.