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23rd Cascade Cycling Classic (NE)
Bend, Oregon, July 10-14, 2002
Stage 5 - July 13: Kirby Nagelhout Construction Grand Prix
Long breakaway efforts bring stage wins for John Leiswyn and Nicole Demars
By Giana Roberge, Team Saturn
It was another tough day in the heat and hills for the men and women here at the Cascade Classic. With only a short criterium tomorrow, today's Tumelo Grand Prix Circuit Race in the hilly terrain north of Bend was probably the final opportunity at this tour for contenders to take a real shot at overtaking the leaders.
In the women's race, after several attacks were reabsorbed, a breakaway finally stuck with Nicole Demars of Hutch's and Saturn's Jessica Phillips. The two rode nearly half the 56 mile race together off the front of the field creating a comfortable gap of 2:30 by the last seven mile lap. Demars had the better punch at the finish with Phillips taking a well deserved second place. The consistent Heather Alberts of Goldy's led the field in for third with the overall race leader Saturn's Kim Bruckner finishing safely in the group thus maintaining her lead.
The men's race, held in the heat of the day, saw a bold Mike Creed of Prime Alliance throw the first punch just half a mile into the 77 mile stage. Several others bridged across over the course of the first lap and the gap opened up to 1:10 by the finish of the first lap. With Creed only one minute behind race leader Chris Wherry, his Mercury train set a hard tempo riding on the front to control the gap and protect Wherry's overall lead. Just after the first lap on the one kilometer long KOM hill Saturn's Tim Johnson made his own bold move and attacked the Mercury train, bridging across to the lead break. It took him just half the lap to reach the leaders, now a strong group of seven who were all interested in staying away from the peloton.
As the gap continued to grow up to a maximum of 2:15 the Mercury men kept their cool and simply stuck to their defensive tempo riding. They gradually increased the speed with around four laps to go and the gap started coming down. For the last four laps, each time up the KOM climb, there were attacks which disassembled the Mercury train. However, they were able to regroup each time and continue to bring the gap down. By the bell lap the gap was down to just 30 seconds and the break was down to four as they forged on. Mercury starting to show signs of exhaustion the stage was set for a very close finish.
In the end the breakaway barely made it to the line with John Leiswyn of 7-Up/Nutrafig taking the win over Creed and Johnson.
Results
Women 1 Nicole Demars (Hutch's) 2 Jessica Phillips (Saturn) 3 Heather Alberts (Goldy's) Men 1 Jon Lieswyn (7UP/ Nutra Fig) 2.54.12 2 Michael Creed (Prime Alliance) 3 Tim Johnson (Saturn) 4 Antonio Cruz (USPS) 0.09 5 Ryan Guay (Navigators) 6 Damon Kluck (Saturn) 7 Doug Ollerenshaw (TeamBikeGalleryTREKVW) 8 Burke Swindlehurst (Navigators) 9 Chris Wherry (Mercury) 10 Danny Pate (Prime Alliance) 11 Chris Horner (Prime Alliance) 12 Tom Leaper (Navigators) 13 Will Frischorn (Saturn) 14 Hugo Prado Neto (Cody Racing) 15 Allan Butler (LoganRaceClub) 16 Chris Baldwin (Navigators) 17 Michael Ley (Jittery Joe's) 18 Soren Petersen (Saturn) 19 David Wyandt (Sierra Nevada Cycling) 20 Scott Moninger (Mercury) 21 Barry Wicks (TeamBikeGalleryTREKVW) 22 Dale Suttle (BackyarBurgers/David Jo) 23 Devon Vigus (Sharpbicycle/Trek) 24 Matt Dubberly (Sierra Nevada Cycling) 25 Tom Danielson (Mercury) 0.22 26 Sandy Perrins (LoganRaceClub) 27 Dylan Siebel (CDS/Kenwood/WCS) 0.27 28 Trent Klasna (Saturn) 29 John Hunt (Sierra Nevada Cycling) 0.32 30 Michael J. Anker (KB Homes/I.Martin) 31 Randy Rocchi (F2 Consulting) 32 Jason Klikna (Sierra Nevada Cycling) 33 Rusty Beall (Saturn of Bellvue) 34 Charles F. Coyle (7UP/ Nutra Fig) 35 Ben Jacques-Maynes (Sierra Nevada Cycling) 36 Adrian Elzinger (CDS/Kenwood/WCS) 37 Nathan Dills (TeamBikeGalleryTREKVW) 38 Roman Kilun (SantaCruz Spokesman) 39 Phil Zajicek (Mercury) 1.24 40 Svein Tuft (Prime Alliance) 41 Gord Fraser (Mercury) 2.58 42 David Richter (Recycled Cycles) 5.19 43 John Osguthorpe (LoganRaceClub) 5.43 44 Chris Fisher (Saturn) 7.24 45 Andrew Touchstone (Marathon Racing Team) 46 Kirk O'Bee (Navigators) 47 Glen Mitchell (Navigators) 48 Matt Decanio (Prime Alliance) 49 John Peters (Prime Alliance) 50 Alex Candelario (Prime Alliance) 51 Erik Van Den Akker (Reno Wheelmen) 8.18 52 Jason Lokkesmoe (Sharp/TREK) 53 Lance Doherty (3 BRT) 54 Kirk Eck (LoganRaceClub) 55 Ian Settlemire (KB Homes/I.Martin) 56 Geoffrey Burndred (Broadmark Capital) 8.34 57 Mike Sayers (Mercury) 9.33 58 Eric Tonkin (TeamBikeGalleryTREKVW) 12.18 59 Erik Long (Team Compass) 60 Ron Hudson (KB Homes/I.Martin) 16.08 61 Marc Collard (Davis Bike Club) 16.20 62 Robert Newman (F2 Consulting) 17.06 63 Scott Martin (Logan Race Club) 17.31 64 Jason L. Leitheiser (BHC/Airborne) 18.40 65 Jeff Caton (Napa Valley Velo) 66 Adham Sbeih (Mercury) 19.17 67 Josh Klikna (Sierra Nevada Cycling) 68 Andrew Mandart (AST) 69 Chris Baumann (Sierra Nevada Cycling) 70 David Fuentes (Sierra Nevada Cycling) 71 Justin Morgan (Sierra Nevada Cycling) 72 Todd Littlehales (Navigators) 19.36 73 Sam Richardson (TeamBikeGalleryTREKVW) 74 Russell Stevenson (Prime Alliance) 20.24 75 Rob Campbell (Broadmark Capital) 20.41 76 Evan Elken (Broadmark Capital) 77 Tom Crawford (Broadmark Capital) 25.33 78 Zachary Walker (Olympic Club) 28.54 79 Rinaldo Bullentini (F2 Consulting) 35.17 80 Luke Pennington (--) 40.00 81 Michael Jacques (F2 Consulting) 40.47 82 Troy White (Sierra Nevada Cycling) 1.10.06 83 Roger Rilling (Sierra Nevada Cycling) 84 Brian Hawley (Sierra Nevada Cycling) DNF Ben Kaplan (Saturn of Bellvue) DNF Andrew Bajadali (Excel Sports) DNF Fred Whatley (F2 Consulting) DNF Daimeon D. Shanks (Hutch's) DNF Russ Humberston (Corbin Huntair) DNF Mick Walsh (Saturn of Bellvue) DNF Henk Vogels (Mercury) General classification after stage 5 1 Chris Wherry (Mercury) 11.22.59 2 Burke Swindlehurst (Navigators) 0.18 3 Danny Pate (Prime Alliance) 0.21 4 Michael Creed (Prime Alliance) 0.51 5 Tim Johnson (Saturn) 1.11 6 Chris Horner (Prime Alliance) 1.12 7 Tom Leaper (Navigators) 1.53 8 Chris Baldwin (Navigators) 2.20 9 Scott Moninger (Mercury) 2.33 10 Damon Kluck (Saturn) 2.41 11 Antonio Cruz (USPS) 3.28 12 Jon Lieswyn (7UP/ Nutra Fig) 4.49 13 Michael Ley (Jittery Joe's) 4.55 14 Phil Zajicek (Mercury) 4.55 15 Hugo Prado Neto (Cody Racing) 5.32 16 John Hunt (Sierra Nevada Cycling) 6.11 17 Will Frischorn (Saturn) 6.30 18 Sandy Perrins (LoganRaceClub) 6.50 19 Tom Danielson (Mercury) 8.02 20 David Wyandt (Sierra Nevada Cycling) 9.41 21 Ben Jacques-Maynes (Sierra Nevada Cycling) 10.26 22 Soren Petersen (Saturn) 11.48 23 Adrian Elzinger (CDS/Kenwood/WCS) 13.10 24 Barry Wicks (TeamBikeGalleryTREKVW) 13.31 25 Matt Dubberly (Sierra Nevada Cycling) 14.36 26 Dylan Siebel (CDS/Kenwood/WCS) 19.39 27 Michael J. Anker (KB Homes/I.Martin) 19.53 28 John Osguthorpe (LoganRaceClub) 20.49 29 Matt Decanio (Prime Alliance) 21.08 30 Gord Fraser (Mercury) 25.08 31 Jason Klikna (Sierra Nevada Cycling) 25.48 32 Doug Ollerenshaw (TeamBikeGalleryTREKVW) 27.58 33 Mike Sayers (Mercury) 28.07 34 Geoffrey Burndred (Broadmark Capital) 28.17 35 Eric Tonkin (TeamBikeGalleryTREKVW) 29.22 36 Dale Suttle (BackyarBurgers/David Jone) 32.10 37 Ryan Guay (Navigators) 33.31 38 Adham Sbeih (Mercury) 33.38 39 Allan Butler (LoganRaceClub) 34.49 40 Rusty Beall (Saturn of Bellvue) 35.16 41 Charles F. Coyle (7UP/ Nutra Fig) 35.34 42 Svein Tuft (Prime Alliance) 38.45 43 Ron Hudson (KB Homes/I.Martin) 40.45 44 Trent Klasna (Saturn) 41.12 45 Roman Kilun (SantaCruz Spokesman) 41.22 46 Nathan Dills (TeamBikeGalleryTREKVW) 43.01 47 Jason Lokkesmoe (Sharp/TREK) 43.31 48 Ian Settlemire (KB Homes/I.Martin) 44.14 49 Glen Mitchell (Navigators) 47.11 50 Alex Candelario (Prime Alliance) 47.27 51 Kirk O'Bee (Navigators) 48.29 52 Andrew Touchstone (Marathon Racing Team) 48.33 53 Randy Rocchi (F2 Consulting) 50.05 54 Erik Long (Team Compass) 50.49 55 Lance Doherty (3 BRT) 51.40 56 Erik Van Den Akker (Reno Wheelmen) 55.50 57 John Peters (Prime Alliance) 1.00.00 58 Chris Fisher (Saturn) 1.00.10 59 Robert Newman (F2 Consulting) 1.01.23 60 Devon Vigus (Sharpbicycle/Trek) 1.06.26 61 Kirk Eck (LoganRaceClub) 1.09.22 62 David Fuentes (Sierra Nevada Cycling) 1.10.14 63 Russell Stevenson (Prime Alliance) 1.12.03 64 Todd Littlehales (Navigators) 1.12.24 65 Jason L. Leitheiser (BHC/Airborne) 1.13.33 66 Chris Baumann (Sierra Nevada Cycling) 1.17.14 67 Tom Crawford (Broadmark Capital) 1.17.32 68 Luke Pennington (--) 1.20.04 69 Jeff Caton (Napa Valley Velo) 1.21.09 70 Marc Collard (Davis Bike Club) 1.24.49 71 Evan Elken (Broadmark Capital) 1.26.39 72 Andrew Mandart (AST) 1.32.28 73 Rob Campbell (Broadmark Capital) 1.32.31 74 Justin Morgan (Sierra Nevada Cycling) 1.35.29 75 Scott Martin (Logan Race Club) 1.36.08 76 Zachary Walker (Olympic Club) 1.47.30 77 Brian Hawley (Sierra Nevada Cycling) 1.50.07 78 Troy White (Sierra Nevada Cycling) 1.54.37 79 David Richter (Recycled Cycles) 2.05.15 80 Sam Richardson (TeamBikeGalleryTREKVW) 2.10.45 81 Michael Jacques (F2 Consulting) 2.25.00 82 Josh Klikna (Sierra Nevada Cycling) 2.26.03 83 Rinaldo Bullentini (F2 Consulting) 2.33.41 84 Roger Rilling (Sierra Nevada Cycling) 2.53.37
