Alex Fisher (Roanoke, Va./William Byrd ) of the High Point University men's track & field team qualified for the finals of the 60-meter hurdles, finishing the preliminaries in 8.39 in the first day of the ETSU Noswinger Invitational at East Tennessee State.

Fisher will run in the finals of the 60-meter hurdles on Saturday. He also ran in the 60-meter dash preliminaries, finishing in 7.56 but did not qualify for the finals. Justin Conaway (Herndon, Va./Herndon) and Sebastien Bonnot (New Orleans, La./Williston Northampton ) also ran the 60-meter dash, finishing in 7.03 and 7.56, respectively but neither made the finals.

“I am very pleased with Alex's preliminary time and expect him to compete well in the final,” said head coach Mike Esposito. “Justin ran his season's best in the 60-meter dash and is really coming around. Tomorrow we will run our distance kids and we have a chance to win the mile.”

Freshman Jacob Smith (Brockville, Ontario, Thousand Islands Secondary School), who was the Big South Freshman of the Year in cross country, will make his indoor debut as well, after missing last week due to injury. He will run the mile along with senior Josh Morgan, junior Jevin Monds (Whitecourt, Alberta/Hilltop) and sophomore Michael Feroe (Clarksville, Md./River Hill).

Michael Ali (Voorhees, N.J./Eastern) and Neal Darmody will run the 5,000-meter in the first event of the final day at the Niswonger Invitational. Running in the 3,000 is freshmen Stuart Edmonds (Twinsburg, Ohio, Twinsburg) and Dakota Peachee (Garner, N.C., West Johnston). Cole Atkins (Charleston, S.C., Academic Magnet), a graduate student at HPU, will run the 3,000-meter unattached. Atkins is out of eligibility for the indoor season but will compete for High Point in outdoor track & field.

TJ Brancaccio (Norcross, Ga., Norcross ) will compete in the pole vault on Saturday after he cleared 15'3 and finished second last weekend.

Junior Corey Grove (Chambersburg, Pa., Chambersburg) is coming off a personal best in the 1,000-meter at the Virginia Tech Invitational (2:33.94) and a tenth place finish in the 800-meter (1.57.05). This weekend he will compete in the 800-meter, the 4x400 meter relay and he will run the 800-meter leg of the distance medley relay.