But the 23-year-old Oranza, who reigned supreme in the Stage One criterium in Bago City, Negros Occidental on Friday, kept the LBC red jersey and the overall lead with a faster time of 2:16:50.69 as against Roque's 2:16:50.77.

"I'm happy that a Navy teammate won," said Oranza, who boasts of six stage victories including the first two stages of the Mindanao Leg in Butuan City a month back.

Navy's El Joshua Carino wound up No. 4 in the stage in 1:09:50.38, outsprinting Team LBC-MVP Sports Foundation's Ronald Lomotos, who came in at No. 5 with a time of 1:09:50.40.

LBC-MVPSF's Mark Julius Bonzo, Navy's John Mark Camingao and Lloyd Lucien Reynante and LBC-MVPSF's Jerry Aquino, Jr. and Rustom Lim finished sixth to 10th in 1:09:56.38, 1:09:57.12, 1:10:08.52, 1:10:08.57 and 1:10:09.20, respectively.


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