BMC Racing Team's Brent Bookwalter finished eighth on Saturday's summit finish at the Larry H. Miller Tour of Utah after teammate Joey Rosskopf was in the day's breakaway.

Bookwalter finished 1:54 behind solo stage winner Joe Dombrowski (Cannondale-Garmin), who took the overall lead with a day to go. Bookwalter, who had been second overall, is now 1:32 behind and still the BMC Racing Team's best-placed rider heading into Sunday's circuit race in Park City.

"The group that reformed that I was part of really did not have a lot of cohesion," Bookwalter said. "There were guys racing for a lot of different things: top 10s, top fives, best young rider, stuff like that. So it wasn't cohesive for going faster in the upper section of the climb that flattens out a little bit. I tried to keep the pace up as high as I could and limit the damage that I knew was being inflicted."

Rosskopf was part of a 12-man escape a year after finishing second to future teammate Cadel Evans, also out of a breakaway. He was one of three riders left in the move at the bottom of the last climb. But they were overtaken as Dombrowski made the decisive attack.

"I was surprised, because I really thought that was a great group with some really strong climbers," BMC Racing Team Sport Director Jackson Stewart said. "Last year, we had the same type of move and half the group was shelled on the climb up Guardsman pass. So to see that many guys almost make it over the top made it seem like a strong group."