BLOOMSBURG, Pa. - The 24th-ranked Queens College men's tennis team improved to 15-3 on the 2011-12 season Saturday afternoon, as the Knights defeated 44th-ranked Bluefield State (W. Va.) for the second time this season -- this time, by a 9-0 count at the Bloomsburg Duals.

QC gutted through all of their matches against the Big Blues (15-4) to secure the triumph. Twelfth-ranked senior Attila Toth (Budapest, Hungary) and junior Nikolaj Wulff (Munich, Germany) used a tiebreaker to win their No. 1 doubles flight match, 9-8 against Vlad Catlan and Niklas Sparr. Seniors Claudio Andrade (Sete Lagoas, Brazil) and Tyrone Ewels (Pietermaritzburg, S. Africa) got the better of Shikar Kapur and Piotr Kruk, 8-5, while seniors Jesse Smith (New York, N.Y.) and Diego Medrano (Cucuta, Colombia) won 8-4 at No. 3 doubles versus Guatam Sreeram and Conner Pickering.

In singles action, 15th-ranked Toth used a third-set super tiebreaker to down Kapur, 6-1, 4-6 and 11-9, while 44th-ranked Ewels bested Catlan, 7-5 and 6-1. Andrade used identical 6-1 scores to defeat Kruk at the No. 3 flight, while sophomore Andre Pellegrino (Sao Paolo, Brazil) won against Pickering at No. 4, 7-6 (3) and 6-2. Medrano [6-4, 7-6 (7)] and Wulff (6-3 and 7-5) won their Nos. 5 and 6 flight match-ups against Sparr and Sreeram, respectively.

Head coach Craig Schwartz's Knights are back in action in the second and final day of the Bloomsburg Duals on Sunday, when they take on West Virginia Wesleyan at 8:30 a.m.