WALTHAM, Mass. – The Queens College men's tennis team, ranked No. 26 in the most-recent Campbell's/Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Division II national poll, won its first-round NCAA Division II Championship match Monday afternoon at Bentley University, as the second-seeded Knights (19-5) took out seventh-seeded University of the Sciences (9-8) by a 5-0 decision in East Region play.

Queens advances to Tuesday's second-round, where it will face host and third-seeded Bentley (a 5-0 winner versus Southern New Hampshire on Monday) in a 12 noon first serve. The winner of that match will advance to the Round of 16, May 11 at Altamonte Springs, Fla.

The Knights took all three doubles points to open up the afternoon, including: an 8-2 victory at the No. 1 flight by East Coast Conference Player of the Year, Atilla Toth and Nikolaj Wulff (versus Francisco Garcia and Alvaro Vargas); an 8-1 triumph by Fabio Minami and Andre Pellegrino at No. 2 (vs. Bill Fine and Josh Garcia); and an 8-love win at No. 3 by Diego Medrano and David Burstein (over Roger Van Scyoc and Paul Bedway).

Toth, ranked No. 29 in singled play in the most-recent Campbell's/ITA poll, and Medrano (ranked No. 15 in the East Region) recorded identical 6-love, 6-love wins at the No. 1 (Vargas) and No. 3 (Fine) flights, respectively, to seal the match for Queens. Burstein and Pellegrino were up 6-love, 5-love in their No. 5 and 6 singles matches before team play was halted.

Provided by the Queens College Sports Information Department.