MOUNT BACHELOR — Kristabel Doebel-Hickok was extremely excited that she was just moments from getting whisked away to go pee in a cup.

“My first-ever drug test!” she exclaimed happily on Friday, after winning Stage 3 of the pro women’s race in the 35th annual Bend Memorial Clinic Cascade Cycling Classic.

CCC stage winners typically are required to provide urine samples to U.S. Anti-Doping Agency officials.

Doebel-Hickok’s victory was the first major stage win of her one-year pro cycling career — which helps explain why she was thrilled to be tested.

Her winning time in the 73-mile Cascade Lakes Road Race was 3 hours, 34 minutes, 55 seconds. Doebel-Hickok’s Tibco teammate Lauren Stephens finished second, nine seconds back, and maintained her comfortable lead in the overall standings.

Anne Perry of DNA Cycling took third, also nine seconds back.

Perry and Doebel-Hickok broke away from a lead group of 20 riders with about 3 kilometers remaining, then Doebel-Hickok sprinted away from Perry about 200 meters from the finish at Mt. Bachelor’s Sunrise Lodge.

“Before the final turn, I just went wide and jumped as hard as I could,” said Doebel-Hickok, 25. “I do a lot better when I have a job, just keeping Lauren in yellow and protecting her wheel on the climb. Just going steady is good for me.”

Friday’s stage started at Bend’s Summit High School and took riders west on Century Drive to Mount Bachelor, then south on the Cascades Lakes Highway. The cyclists then rode Forest Service roads 40 and 45 back toward Sunrise Lodge.

Stephens, who won the prologue and the first two stages of this six-day race, now has a 1:14 lead on second-place overall Amber Neben of FCS.

Stephens was happy that her teammate took the stage win Friday.

“Today we got to race as a team, and the team rode at the front for most of the race,” Stephens said. “It was just awesome today to see the team ride for me and protect the yellow jersey, and to show everybody the strengths that we have.”

Stephens hinted that she just might go for another stage win in tonight’s Downtown Twilight Criterium in Bend, rather than playing it safe. The pro women start at 5:45 p.m.

“We definitely love to win, so we’ll definitely be racing our bikes out there,” she said. “I do OK in crits. I used to hate them, but I’ve grown in that area.”

— Reporter: 541-383-0318, mmorical@bendbulletin.com.