READING, Pa. -- Derek Kendig and Waid Gainer were the top performers for the Elizabethtown College men's track & field team on Saturday at the first meet of the second semester. The Blue Jays competed at the Alvernia Winter Invitational.

TOP PERFORMANCES
-Kendig was fourth in the 3,000m at 8:59.45
-Gainer placed fourth in the high jump with a season-best height of 1.90m (6'2-3/4") and was seventh in the 60 meter hurdles with a season-best time of 8.83
-Blake Haddon was fifth in the high jump at 1.85m (6'0-3/4")
-The 4x200m relay of Matt Lamb, Lucas Novack, Khaliq Poles, and Cam Michaels was fifth in 1:34.36 while the second relay was eighth
-Josef Book took eighth in the 60m hurdles
-Joey Walko was eighth in the weight throw at 14.57m (47'9-3/4")

ALL-TIME PERFORMANCES
-Josef Book's preliminary time of 8.70 in the 60m hurdles is fourth all-time
-Waid Gainer's time of 8.83 in the hurdle final is now sixth all-time
-Waid Gainer's clearance of 1.90m ties him for sixth all-time

Elizabethtown will compete at the Coach I Invite at F&M on Saturday, January 24.