Heading down the final hill at the Kearney Country Club, Central City’s Jacob Zimmerman and Ashton Supik were shoulder-to-shoulder.

At the finish line of the NSAA Class C State Cross Country Championships, just one runner separated the two.

Last week, amid a field of 121 runners, Zimmerman placed sixty-ninth, while Supik came in seventy-first. The senior capped his cross country career by finishing …