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Ashley Higginson, the fourth-ranked women’s steeplechase runner in the country, got her outdoor season off to a great start.

The former Colts Neck High School and Princeton University great, who now runs professionally for Saucony and is a member of the New Jersey-New York Track Club, won her first steeplechase of the season at the Oxy High Performance Meet held at Occidental College in Los Angeles, Calif. She took the victory in 9:45.83.