ROME, Ga. | Head coach Paul Thomson earned his 200th career victory, and both of The University of Alabama in Huntsville tennis teams picked up 6-3 wins on the road at Shorter on Saturday. The women's team improves to 6-10 (4-3 Gulf South Conference), while the men move to 6-12 (1-5 GSC).
 
In the women's match, the Chargers swept the doubles points starting with a big 8-2 win at the third position by the pairing of Cristina Cabanas and Monika Polakovic. The top pairing of Sarah Stearman and Aniek Remmerswaal won 8-6, and UAH went up 3-0 in the match with a 9-8 victory from Marleen Gort and Naomi Esteve at the second spot.
 
In singles play, Gort won 6-0, 6-2 from the top position before Shorter earned two points to make it 4-2, but the match would be sealed for the Chargers when Marta Briega won 6-0, 6-0 at the sixth position.
 
Giving UAH its sixth point, Esteve at the fifth spot was a 6-2, 6-7, 10-4 winner.
 
On the men's side, the Chargers went up 2-1 after doubles with victories coming from the third pairing of Noah Pring and Timo Christen and the second duo of Sebastian Rohrbach and Elliot Hopson.
 
UAH then had an easy go at it in singles play from the third position down to pick up the victory.
 
Both Rodrigo Palominos at the fifth and Guilherme Coleta at the sixth only surrendered one game in winning 6-1, 6-0 and 6-0, 6-1, respectively, while Hopson was a 6-1, 6-1 winner at the fourth.
 
Rohrbach also won in singles, picking up a 6-1, 6-2 victory at the third spot.
 
Both teams will be back in action on Tuesday when Alabama A&M visits. The contest against the crosstown foe is slated for a 2 p.m. start.