FRESNO — Seniors Maximo Zavaleta and Jace Deledonne have been battling it out all year long to see not only who was the top boys cross country runner in the city of Riverside, but the entire Inland area.

Last week, King’s Zavaleta and Riverside Poly’s Deledonne finished 1-2 in the CIF Southern Section’s Division 1 finals.

Saturday, they finished in the same order but came up just short of winning an individual state championship, as Zavaleta and Deledonne finished second and third, respectively, at the CIF State Championships at Woodward Park.

The race between Zavaleta and Deledonne, along with the Claremont and Santiago girls teams and other individuals such as Braelyn Combe and Isla Bulmer were among the highlights among Inland athletes Saturday.

Zavaleta had come close to winning on

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