Day 4 -- North Division

Each day saw a new low toss time for the competition and 145th’s Mike Baxley’s 28-second pie was smoking fast. Unfortunately for him it wasn’t pretty enough to move him on to the next round. That wasn’t the case for Sam Kosola and Amanda Johnson. The two former fellow crewmembers hired 5 days apart tied for first. It seems that those extra 5 days have made Sam 1 second faster – and he blames the ovens for the one point keeping him from the outright 1st place finish. Mike Young, an 8-year Pagliacci veteran, moves on as does Trevor Takara of Edmonds.

Lake City Way GM Steve Crotts tried using home store advantage by rearranging the kitchen for his attempt. He was practically tossing in the oven and the other competitors cried foul. The majority of the trash talk was saved for Lake City Way’s Galen Lundquist ostensibly because he’s too nice.

Here is your Sweet 16 to update your bracket (listed in order of finish, ties going to the faster time):

• East Division: Paul Williams, Bert Trotter and Khalil Mardini from Crossroads along with Terry Hang from Bridle Trails

• Southwest Division: Alex Henderson from Commissary, Lisa Rossiter from Queen Anne, Crystal Leahy from PSC (the office), Luke Sumpter from Magnolia

• Central Division: Romael Jacobs from Miller, Jason Legaspi from HUB, Cameron Jackson from Stone Way, Luis Bibiano-Lopez from Sand Point

• North Division: Sam Kosola from Ballinger, Amanda Johnson from Miller (formerly from Edmonds), Mike Young from Lake City Way, Trevor Takara from Edmonds

Competition resumes Wednesday as the eight from the North and East compete to fill the first 2 spots in the Final 4. Thursday the Central and North have their go.

Brian Youngdahl from Ballinger pulls off a behind the back toss.

Lacy Gibson from 145th shows off her tossing guns.

Mike Baxley from 145th left everyone moonstruck with his tossing speed.