Cascade Cycling Classic - NEOregon, USA, July 19-23, 2000Stage 4 (men) - July 21: Bend Criterium, 65 kmMercury dominate men, while Reinhart edges out GuerroBy John Alsedek, cyclingnews.com correspondent In the evening's criterium, presumably an opportunity for the sprinters to get back some of their own after three stages tailored to the mountain goats, things worked out pretty much as expected....almost. With the sidewalks filled nearly to capacity around the 0.6-mile circuit, both races were highly animated, the men spurred on by a special $1,000 prime for the first rider to lap the field, however both came down to bunch sprints. Nicole Reinhart (Saturn) narrowly beat out Mexican Belem Guerrero (TurMex) and Julie Young (AutoTrader.com) in a result that had only a modest effect on the women's overall standings. As for the men, after controlling the race basically from the gun, Mercury got their 'train' rolling with two laps to go; going into the last turn, they had three riders at the front covering danger-man Larsen. And it worked, mostly: rising star Baden Cooke took his second stage win, ahead of teammate Derek Bouchard-Hall. However Larsen, who snapped up the time bonus for third place moved to within five seconds of Moninger's race lead. The final two days shaped up to be VERY interesting. Results1 Baden Cooke (Aus) Mercury 56.14 2 Derek Bouchard-Hall (USA) Mercury 3 Steve Larsen (USA) LL Bean-Mongoose 4 Siro Compongaro (USA) Navigators 5 Luke Mautitsen (USA) Wizards of the Coast 6 Doug Ziewacz (USA) 7Up-Colorado Cyclist 7 Tim Larkin (USA) GS Lombardis-OFOTO.com 8 Damon Kluck (USA) Spokesman 9 Will Frischkorn (USA) Mercury 10 Patrick Briggs (USA) Alto Velo-Webcor-Quicken.com 11 Clark Sheehan (USA) 7Up-Colorado Cyclist 12 Patrick Heaney (USA) GS Lombardis-OFOTO.com 13 Bob Hooks (USA) Alto Velo-Webcor-Quicken.com 14 Jamul Hahn (USA) Nutra Fig 15 Johnny Sundt (USA) Saturn of Bellevue Pazzo 16 Kirk Willet (USA) Mercury 17 Burke Swindlehurst (USA) Navigators 18 Giancarlo Ginestri (Ita) Navigators 19 Donald Reeb (USA) Nutra Fig 20 Aaron Olson (USA) Nutra Fig General classification after stage 4: 1 Scott Moninger (USA) Mercury 8.30.08 2 Steve Larsen (USA) LL Bean-Mongoose 0.05 3 Clark Sheehan (USA) 7Up-Colorado Cyclist 0.42 4 Baden Cooke (Aus) Mercury 1.02 5 Will Frischkorn (USA) Mercury 1.29 6 Kirk Willet (USA) Mercury 1.44 7 Giancarlo Ginestri (Ita) Navigators 1.48 8 Tim Larkin (USA) GS Lombardis-OFOTO.com 1.58 9 Dean Meyer (USA) GS Lombardis-OFOTO.com 2.02 10 Burke Swindlehurst (USA) Navigators 2.07 11 Ryan Allison (USA) George's 2.17 12 Damon Kluck (USA) Spokesman 2.20 13 Doug Ziewacz (USA) 7Up-Colorado Cyclist 2.31 14 Paul Kelly (USA) Navigators 2.35 15 John Foster (USA) George's 2.36 16 Nathan Dahlberg (NZl) Village Peddlar 2.47 17 Norman Carter (USA) Jelly Belly 3.09 18 Dave Aschwanden (USA) Plant Outdoors 3.15 19 Zack Vestal (USA) George's 3.24 20 Ryan Barrett (USA) LA Wings 3.54 Stage 3 (women) - July 21: Bend Criterium, 40 minResults1 Nicole Reinhart (USA) Saturn 37.18 2 Belem Guerrero (USA) Turbo Mexico 3 Julie Young (USA) Autotrader.com 4 Pam Schuster (USA) Autotrader.com 5 Caren Spore (USA) Davis Bike Club 6 Stacey Peters (USA) 800.com 7 Liza Rachetto (USA) Boise-Cascade 8 Muffy Roy (USA) KMX/Sunnyside 9 Jeannette Nussbaum (USA) Recycled Cycles 10 Lysle Wilhelmi (USA) 800.com 11 Laura Suditu (USA) 800.com 12 Emily Westbrook (USA) Recycled Cycles 13 Christy Nicholson (USA) 800.com 14 Norrene Valente (USA) Safway-Saturn 15 Kimberly Bruckner (USA) Autotrader.com 16 Susan Gottschalk (USA) Edmonton Road 17 Nicole Gingles (USA) 800.com 18 Leah Goldstein (USA) 800.com 19 Lauren Smith (USA) Spokes 20 Lisa Hunt (USA) Olympic Club 21 Lisa Magness (USA) Hutchinson 22 Meredith Mills (USA) Echelon Wines 23 Anke Erlank (RSA) Autotrader.com 24 Annabelle Vowels (Aus) Blackburn Cycling Club 25 Marla Husnik (USA) Saturn Belleview 26 Cindy Carroll (USA) 800.com 27 Heidi Stamm (USA) FVV 28 Ingrid Spies (USA) Recycled Cycles 29 Andrea Ratkovic (USA) Autotrader.com 30 Allison Beall (USA) Torrefazione Italia 31 Andrea Foster (USA) 800.com 32 Laura Shuford (USA) Autotrader.com 33 KC Richards (USA) Husky Racing 1.28 34 Tina Willett (USA) Wizards of the Coast 35 Troy Watson (USA) Alto Velo-Webcor 36 Melissa Erion (USA) Paramount Homes 2.00 37 Emily Kachorek (USA) Davis Bike Club 38 Coleen Kelly (USA) Celo Pacific 39 Joanne Stevens (USA) Sunnyside Rebound 2.41 40 Emily Miazga (USA) Paramount Homes 3.41 41 Kathleen Moore (USA) Safway-Saturn 42 Debra Stolt-Krichko (USA) Safway-Saturn 43 Lynn Holland (USA) Safway-Saturn 5.38 44 Shanan Whitlach (USA) Safway-Saturn 6.30 0 Sue Weis (USA) Hutchinson General classification after stage 3: 1 Kimberly Bruckner (USA) Autotrader.com 4.30.05 2 Anke Erlank (RSA) Autotrader.com 0.59 3 Lysle Wilhelmi (USA) 800.com 1.11 4 Julie Young (USA) Autotrader.com 1.15 5 Pam Schuster (USA) Autotrader.com 1.19 6 Caren Spore (USA) Davis Bike Club 1.27 7 Belem Guerrero (USA) Turbo Mexico 1.33 8 Jeannette Nussbaum (USA) Recycled Cycles 1.37 9 Andrea Ratkovic (USA) Autotrader.com 1.38 10 Ingrid Spies (USA) Recycled Cycles 2.08 11 Muffy Roy (USA) KMX/Sunnyside 2.19 12 Lisa Magness (USA) Hutchinson 3.04 13 Nicole Reinhart (USA) Saturn 3.18 14 Nicole Gingles (USA) 800.com 15 Lauren Smith (USA) Spokes 3.27 16 Tina Willett (USA) Wizards of the Coast 3.30 17 Marla Husnik (USA) Saturn Belleview 3.43 18 Meredith Mills (USA) Echelon Wines 3.58 19 Liza Rachetto (USA) Boise-Cascade 4.02 20 Emily Westbrook (USA) Recycled Cycles 4.12 |