MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The men's and women's tennis teams of Auburn Montgomery defeated Xavier University of Louisiana for the championships of the AUM Invitational on Sunday. The men won 6-3, and the women won 7-2.
        Both AUM teams are ranked third in the NAIA. Xavier's men are sixth, and the women are seventh.
        Tushar Mandlekar won in doubles and singles for the Gold Rush (8-2). Nour Abbes and Brion Flowers won at No. 1 doubles for the Gold Nuggets (9-6), and Caroline Vernet won a third-set super-tiebreaker for the Nuggets' lone singles victory at No. 2.
        XU's Kyle Montrel and Nikita Soifer improved to 6-0 this season in doubles with an 8-4 victory against Birkir Gunnarsson and Othmane Lalami. But Soifer lost in singles for the first time this semester after six victories.
        Abbes, the NAIA's top-ranked women's singles player, retired with an injury after trailing 2-1 in the opening set against Alice Baudeigne. It's the second defeat of Abbes' XU singles career in 42 decisions and her first against an NAIA opponent.
        AUM's women (10-2) have won 10 straight, and the men (10-3) have won nine in a row. They snapped the seven-dual win streak of the Gold Rush and the five-dual win streak of the Gold Nuggets.
        Xavier's next competition was to be a men's dual match Thursday against Troy at Pensacola, Fla., but XU coach Alan Green said the site and date will change. The Gold Nuggets will travel to Baton Rouge, La., to play Southern University at noon Sunday.