Redlands stage 3, a Wil Matthews gallery

Team Colavita-Forno D'Asolo prepares for another day of tough racing. The team would finish the weekend having won three out of four stages of the Redlands Bicycle Classic. Photo: Wil Matthews | wilmatthewsphoto.com

Peanut Butter & Co.-Twenty12 teammates Alisha Welsh, left, and Allison Tetrick-Starnes wait for staging. Photo: Wil Matthews | wilmatthewsphoto.com

HTC-Highroad awaits arrival of yellow jersey Amber Neben. Photo: Wil Matthews | wilmatthewsphoto.com

Tibco-To The Top DS Lisa Hunt was awarded the Carole King Sportsmanship award by the race organizers Sunday. Photo: Wil Matthews | wilmatthewsphoto.com

Emily Collins (Vanderkitten-Focus) was present in the main group all race. Collins proved to be a rider worth watching as she finished alongside some of the most accomplished names in the women's field. Photo: Wil Matthews | wilmatthewsphoto.com

Amanda Miller in the QOM jersey leads her HTC-Highroad teammates along a section of the course overlooking Interstate 10 in the valley below. Photo: Wil Matthews | wilmatthewsphoto.com

Alisha Welsh (Peanut Butter & Co.-Twenty12) collects a bottle from DS Giana Roberge in the feed zone. Photo: Wil Matthews | wilmatthewsphoto.com

Much of the Sunset Road Race course is under tree canopy, offering riders a break from the sun, if not the hills. Photo: Wil Matthews | wilmatthewsphoto.com

On the second to last lap all the top-placed GC riders were together, including the eventual winner Cath Cheatley (Colavita-Forno D'Asolo), far right. Photo: Wil Matthews | wilmatthewsphoto.com

Cath Cheatley (Colavita-Forno D'Asolo) won with a significant margin over Carmen Small (Tibco-To The Top). It was Cheatley's first win in her New Zealand national champion jersey. Photo: Wil Matthews | wilmatthewsphoto.com

Cath Cheatley (Colavita Forno-D'Asolo) outsprinted an elite field to secure her team's third victory in four days at Redlands. Photo: Wil Matthews | wilmatthewsphoto.com

Ben Day (Kenda-5-hour Energy) stretches while awaiting call-ups for the final event in the Redlands Classic. Day, the defending champion, would finish just outside the top ten in GC at the end of the day. Photo: Wil Matthews | wilmatthewsphoto.com

Mike Creed (Kelly Benefit Strategies-OptumHealth) and Ben Jacques-Maynes (Bissell Pro Cycling) in staging. Photo: Wil Matthews | wilmatthewsphoto.com

The men's field makes its way beneath the towering Palm trees of Cajon Boulevard toward the Sunset circuit. Photo: Wil Matthews | wilmatthewsphoto.com

The men's field begins the first of twelve laps of the Sunset Circuit race. The course winds through the hilly residential neighborhoods in Redlands. Photo: Wil Matthews | wilmatthewsphoto.com

Bissell Pro Cycling stayed at the front for almost all of the 94-mile race. Photo: Wil Matthews | wilmatthewsphoto.com

Residents along the Sunset Loop make a yearly tradition of spending an easy afternoon in comfortable weather watching the races. Photo: Wil Matthews | wilmatthewsphoto.com

John Bennett (Cal Giant-Specialized) led a two-man break with George Bennett (Trek-Livestrong) for two laps late in the race; the Cal Giant rider would crash out of the race before the break was caught, but retained the KOM jersey because he completed four laps of the circuit. Photo: Wil Matthews | wilmatthewsphoto.com

Heading to the KOM, riders get some local advice. Photo: Wil Matthews | wilmatthewsphoto.com

Bissell's Ben Jacques-Maynes casts a glance at his GC co-leader Francisco Mancebo (Realcyclist.com) late in stage 3. Photo: Wil Matthews | wilmatthewsphoto.com

Cal Giant-Specialized riders pulled from the race watch the yellow jersey group enter the final lap of the Sunset Loop while looking for teammate John Bennett - who unbeknownst to them, had crashed just prior. Photo: Wil Matthews | wilmatthewsphoto.com

On the second finishing circuit, Francisco Mancebo leaped ahead to capture a time bonus to secure his GC win. Mancebo used lessons learned in the previous day's criterium to stay clear of an isolated Ben Jacques-Maynes in the final three corners. Photo: Wil Matthews | wilmatthewsphoto.com

Cole House (Realcyclist.com) takes the stage win over Jonathan Cantwell (V Australia). Photo: Wil Matthews | wilmatthewsphoto.com

A bloodied and post-race bandaged John Bennett was looking at his stem when his front wheel fell into a pot hole around 50 kph, sending him flying just before the start of the final lap of the Sunset Loop. Photo: Wil Matthews | wilmatthewsphoto.com

Luca Damiani (Kenda-5-hour Energy) replays his second-place sprint to winner Cole House, left, (Realcyclist.com). Photo: Wil Matthews | wilmatthewsphoto.com

Ben Jacques-Maynes (Bissell Pro Cycling) congratulates Francisco Mancebo (Realcyclist.com) as third overall Chris Baldwin (Juwi Solar-First Solar) looks on. Photo: Wil Matthews | wilmatthewsphoto.com

Redlands Bicycle Classic GC winner Francisco Mancebo. Photo: Wil Matthews | wilmatthewsphoto.com