Neilson Powless scored his first UCI stage race victory Sunday in dramatic fashion for the Axeon Hagens Berman Cycling Team.

The 19-year-old from Roseville, California, made up a seven-second deficit on the last day of the Joe Martin Stage Race by earning a pair of time bonuses during the 85-minute criterium before sprinting to a runner-up finish. Those results delivered Powless to a four-second victory over Nigel Ellsay (Silber Pro Cycling) while Janier Acevedo, who had held the overall lead for Team Jamis since winning Thursday's opening time trial, finished third, five seconds back.

"This is awesome," Powless said. "It pretty much all came down to the time bonuses. I knew going into the last lap that I didn't have enough seconds to take the win. So Geoffrey Curran gave me a full lap lead out to the base of the climb. I was going back and forth all the way to the line with Travis McCabe (Holowesko-Citadel Racing Team) and Carlos Alzate (UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team). It came down to a bike length between the three of us as we all threw our bikes at the line."