NASHUA, N.H. - The Queens College men's tennis team, ranked No. 24 nationally in the Campbell's/Intercollegiate Tennis Association NCAA Division II Poll and seeded No. 2 in the NCAA Division II Championships East Region, secured its fourth-consecutive trip to the Round of 16 Tuesday afternoon with a 5-2 triumph over third-seeded and East Coast Conference rival, the University of the District of Columbia.

Head coach Craig Schwartz's Knights (20-3), winners of 20 matches for the second consecutive season, will next face No. 1-ranked Armstrong Atlantic in the Round of 16, May 16 at 2 p.m. in Louisville, Ky. The Pirates advanced by virtue of its 5-0 shutout over No. 29 Georgia College in South Region No. 1 on Tuesday afternoon.

Queens found itself in an unfamiliar situation after doubles play, as a pair of tiebreaker matches fell in favor of the Firebirds and gave the three-seed a 2-1 edge entering singles action. Seniors Tyrone Ewels (Pietermaritzburg, S. Africa) and Claudio Andrade (Sete Lagoas, Brazil) were the lone victors in doubles for the Knights, as they took down Bruno Reich and Tomas Gajdusek by an 8-2 count to open up the scoring.

From there, the gritty singles play of QC led to four-consecutive victories, punching the Knights' ticket to Louisville in the process. Fifteenth-ranked senior, Attila Toth (Budapest, Hungary) was the first to finish his match, winning at the No. 1 flight by scores of 6-love and 6-3 over Aleksandar Grabovac. Fellow senior Diego Medrano (Cucuta, Colombia), who won the clinching match in Queens's first-round victory Monday over seventh-seeded Southern New Hampshire, followed suit with identical 6-2 scores over Simon Andersson in the No. 5 slot. Ewels, ranked No. 44 nationally, used scores of 6-3 and 6-1 to best Gajdusek in No. 2 singles, before junior Nikolaj Wulff (Munich, Germany) utilized a 7-5, 7-5 decision at his No. 6 flight match-up to get the best of Carlos Quiroga.