USA CRITS: Michael Garrison outsprints Lucas Bourgoyne at Rock&Highway Criterium

Michael Garrison (MGR pb +Velocity l Studio) discovered the highest step of the lads’s podium whereas three of the five-rider robust Kingdom Elite Racing squad swept the ladies’s podium at Rock&Highway Criterium p/b 75 Jackson Properties in Newnan, Georgia. 

The Saturday evening races had been the third cease within the USA CRITS collection, and capped a weekend of racing in Georgia. Garrison edged Lucas Bourgoyne (Cadence Cyclery p/b Encore Wire), who sprinted to the lads’s victory the evening earlier than on the Spin The District: Hapeville Crit. Bikers Biking Staff positioned three riders within the prime 6, Jordan Parra going third for the ultimate spot on the lads’s podium.

Bourgoyne had gained the primary two rounds of USA CRITS with late assaults in races in Anniston, Alabama and Hapeville, Georgia. Garrison, who was third in Anniston, redeemed his twenty seventh inserting on Friday evening and fought for the victory in Newnan, situated lower than 50 miles from his house close to Atlanta.

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The ladies’s race was managed for a second consecutive race by Kingdom Elite. Shannon Koch earned the victory with teammates Aylena Quevedo in second and Jeydy Praderas in third. Australian Peta Mullens (Liv SRAM Tango Racing), who centered final yr on gravel racing as a part of the Life Time Grand Prix, completed fourth.

The USA CRITS collection resumes April 26 for the Athens Orthopedic Twilight Criterium in Athens, Georgia, now in its forty fifth version. In a lead-up to that race on April 24, the Greenville Biking Traditional offered by Prisma Well being will happen in Greenville, S.C., which opens the eight-race Velocity Week collection. Riders on the Athens Twilight will rating factors for each USA CRITS and Velocity Week collection of one-day races.

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