FLUSHING, N.Y. - The 24th-ranked Queens College men's tennis team captured its third-consecutive East Coast Conference Championship title Thursday afternoon, as the top-seeded Knights secured a 5-1 triumph over second-seeded University of the District of Columbia.

QC (18-3) secured two doubles matches, as No. 2 flight seniors Tyrone Ewels (Pietermaritzburg, S. Africa) and Claudio Andrade (Sete Lagoas, Brazil) scored an 8-1 decision versus Tomas Gajdusek and Bruno Reich. Later on, the 12th-ranked tandem of senior Attila Toth (Budapest, Hungary) and junior Nikolaj Wulff (Munich, Germany) went to a tiebreaker before capturing a 9-8 (7-4) decision in the No. 1 flight versus regionally ninth-ranked Aleksandar Grabovac and Simon Andersson.

Andrade was first to finish in singles action, as he won his No. 4 flight match against Miguel Uzcategui by identical 6-love scores. Ewels, ranked No. 44 nationally in singles play, bested Gajdusek in the No. 2 flight, 6-1 and 6-4, before fellow senior Diego Medrano (Cucuta, Colombia) knocked off Andersson, 6-1 and 6-3 to secure the team victory for head coach Craig Schwartz's Knights.

Queens, ranked No. 2 in the NCAA Division II East Region, and District of Columbia (16-4), ranked No. 3, will now await their respective draws for the upcoming NCAA Division II Men's Tennis Championships, which will be announced Tuesday night.