(Following is not in accordance with standard horary practice and uses whole sign house format)
-querent's friend = 11th whole sign house = Leo = Sun
-friend's date experience = 5th from the 11th house = Sagittarius = Jupiter
-Sun flows toward Jupiter = + testimony
-Lucky Strike NN is posited in quesited sign (ie, in 5th from 11th house) = + testimony
-lord of the quesited house (5th from 11th), Jupiter, is posited in friend's 9th house AND in an elevated degree of Taurus = + testimony
Answer: yes your friend will have a + experience from the date
Inceptionally, Moon in cardinal sign indicates + early on situation; its lord, Mars, in a mutable sign (Virgo) indicates difficulties coming later on (if there is a later on stemming from this date)
(PS: hope I am correct about the date

and wrong about the inceptional indications

!)