TENAFLY, N.J. - The Queens College men's tennis team, ranked No. 24 in the most-recent Campbell's/Intercollegiate Tennis Association NCAA Division II poll, moved to 3-0 this season against Div. II competition (and 3-1 overall) with a 9-0 shutout at St. Thomas Aquinas College.

The Knights gave up just six games in the three doubles contests, including an 8-2 triumph at the top of the lineup by 15th-ranked Attila Toth (Sr., Budapest, Hungary) and Nikolaj Wulff (Jr., Munich, Germany) over the Spartans' Armando Estevez and Dan Maysonet.

Seniors Tyrone Ewels (Pietermartizburg, S. Africa) and Claudio Andrade (Sete Lagoas, Brazil), ranked No. 2 in the East Region behind Toth and Wulff, scored an 8-3 decision in the No. 2 flight versus Antoine Venard and William Tronsor, while regional 10th-ranked Diego Medrano (Sr., Cucuta, Colombia) and Jesse Smith (Sr., New York, N.Y.) toppled Stas Margarcheko and Prince Silva at No. 3 doubles by an 8-1 count.

Ewels did not lose a game in his No. 4 singles flight matchup against Silva, while Medrano moved past Tronsor by a 6-1, 6-love in their No. 5 contest. Smith took down Maysonet at No. 6 by a 6-love, 6-2 count, while sophomore Andre Pellegrino (Sao Paolo, Brazil) emerged victorious at No. 3 singles by a 6-3, 6-love score versus Estevez. Wulff, ranked No. 41 in Division II, used a 6-3, 6-4 score to knock off Margarcheko at No. 2, while 17th-ranked Toth used a third-set super tiebreaker victory to defeat Venard at the top of the lineup, 6-7 (3), 7-6 (5) and 10-6.

Head coach Craig Schwartz's Queens side is next back in action March 19, when it plays host to its spring home opener against Bluefield State (W. Va.) at 12 noon.