March 11, 2007 (Fresno, CA) — Tina Pic (Colavita/Sutter Home) and Henk Vogels (Toyota-United Pro Cycling Team) have won today’s final Stage 3 Tower District Criterium today at the Central Valley Classic 2007. More results as they become available.

Colavita/Sutter Home Report

Colavita Sutter Home presented by Cooking Light Rider Tina Pic and her teammates are making the people at The City of Hope smile. For every race win Tina gets this year on her custom pink colored Blue competition bicycle, Sutter Home for Hope will donate $1,000 to the City of Hope Breast Cancer awareness fund. Today in the final race of the Central Valley Classic Tina won a hotly contested sprint over T-Mobile’s Susan De Goede.

The general classification for the race was set yesterday with Webcor’s Christine Thorburn holding a 23 second lead over Colavita/Sutter Home’s Dotsie Bausch after the time trail. With only 20 second total in time bonuses on the line today, it was unlikely that there would be any change in the GC in today’s race.

The Aaron’s team was very aggressive trying to get one of its riders off of the front but with the combined efforts of Webcor and Colavita Sutter Home nothing was able to get away. The Colavita Sutter Home team went to the front of the race with 2 laps to go and competed with the trains of Lipton and T-Mobile. Rounding the last corner of the bike race was De Goede first followed by Pic. Tina was able to sneak out of the T-Mobile riders draft and just nip her at the line. Kori Seehafer of Lipton was third with Colavita/ Sutter Home’s Mackenzie Dickey finishing 5th on the stage. The final GC saw Thorburn retain her 1st place status followed by Colavita/ Sutter Homes Bausch in 2nd and Alison powers in 4th and Pic in 7th.

Men’s Race

In the men’s race the Colavita/ Sutter Home men were on a mission to match the women’s top step. The field strung out from the start due to the constant attacks, the Colavita/Sutter Home team continually put riders up the road, with a dangerous break forming that contained Davide Frattini and Peter Hatton. The Priority Health Team each time brought these breaks back and with 5 laps to go it was the colors of Colavita/ Sutter Home on the front.

The team kept the pace single file for the remaining laps and brought its sprinter Alejandro Acton to the final turn. Alejet launched his sprint neck and neck with Toyota United Henk Vogels on his inside. Vogels a crafty sprinter gave Alejet very little room along the barriers and was able to nip the Colavita/Sutter Home rider at the line. The team will next be racing at the Vuelta Linder in Chile on Wednesday as other team travel to Visalia, California for more NRC races next weekend.

News and information about the Colavita/Sutter Home Cycling Teams presented by Cooking Light is available at www.TeamColavita.com.

Results (brief)

Elite Men

1. Henk Vogels (Toyota-United Pro Cycling Team)
2. Alejandro Acton (Colavita/Sutter Home p/b Cooking Light)

Elite Women

1. Tin Pic (Colavita/Sutter Home p/b Cooking Light)
2. Susan De Goede (T-Mobile)
3. Kori Seehawfer (TEAm Lipton)