McCartney, Gaggioli take wins in Arkansas
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Jason McCartney scored a big win for team 7UP-Maxxis over the weekend, while Lynn Gaggioli (Velo Bella) continued a strong 2003 campaign at the Joe Martin Stage Race NRC event in Fayetteville, Arkansas. McCartney beat out Saturn's Eric Wohlberg, while the women's race was a two-rider battle between Gaggioli and Sue Palmer-Komar (Genesis Scuba).
Wohlberg jumped to the early race lead when he won the 113-mile stage 1, four seconds ahead of McCartney and Jelly Belly-Carlsbad Clothing's Ben Brooks, with the next closest group more than four minutes behind. McCartney would come back, however, breaking clear of Wohlberg on Saturday's stage 2, and then taking an impressive time trial win over Wohlberg in stage 3 later that day. McCartney would hold onto the overall on Sunday's final stage, as Ivan Dominguez took the criterium stage win ahead of breakaway companion John Lieswyn (7UP-Maxxis).
In the women's race, Gaggioli broke away on the final climb of the opening road race, and only Palmer-Komar could follow. Gaggioli would sprint to the line just ahead of the Genesis Scuba rider, with third place Candice Blickem (Genesis Scuba) leading in the main field almost three minutes behind. Gaggioli would add to her G.C. lead by taking stage 2, and although Palmer-Komar would win the time trial, it wouldn't be enough to move her into the lead before the final day's criterium. In that criterium, Gaggioli closed out the three-day race by winning her third race out of four stages, beating Blickem at the finish and securing the overall title.
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