Vance James of Team Ball Watch takes the final sprint to win the Masters 35+ criterium race during the Lake County Police Activities League's inaugural Summer Games Sports Festival.
Not only did we win the omnium which consists of three races over two days, we won all three stages as well. Vance won the crit and the road race and Adam won the time trial. Team members for the omnium included Chris Bishop, Kurt Phillips, Bradley Jefferson, Adam Baskin, and Vance James.
In the Saturday crit, speeds were high throughout the race and when Chris bridged up to Steve Selby with five laps to go it looked like he had joined the winning move. Unfortunately, with one lap to go the two were pulled back by a charging peleton. Vance, at this point, had positioned himself perfectly for the sprint which he won with relative ease.
Adam continued his dominance in the time trial by winning the second stage later that afternoon.
Sundays road race took place on a very hilly course on what may have been the hottest day in the history of Florida road racing! The teams job that day was to protect Vance's lead in the overall. This difficult task was made easy when, with three laps to go, Vance bridged up to a break that had established itself earlier in the race then attcked that break! Not an easy feat! He eventually was joined by another rider and the two were able to stay out for the remainder of the race. At the finish, Vance used his sprinting skills to take his second victory of the omnium, the overall, and to establish himself as perhaps the best masters racer in the country ( when one thinks back to his victory at Superweek).
