SANTA CLARITA — Britain's Mark Cavendish raced his third Tour of California stage victory and Latvia's Tom Skujins retained the overall lead Thursday in the rainy fifth stage. Cavendish, the Etixx-Quick Step rider who won the first two stages, powered to the front in the final 200 yards to win the 95.7-mile led from Santa Barbara to Santa Clarita in 3 hours, 51 minutes, 37 seconds. Belgium's Zico Waeytens of Giant-Alpecin was second, and Slovakia's Peter Sagan of Tinkoff-Saxo was third — in the same time as Cavendish. Sagan gained four bonus seconds to cut Skujins' lead to 18 seconds with three stages left in the eight-day race. — AP