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HARMARVILLE - BETHEL PARK 3 MT LEBANON 1 Bethel Park is the defending Central Catholic Invitational Champions and there is a reason why Bethel Park has been very successful over the past three years ! The Hawks do the simple things necessary to put them into a position to win every game. The semi-final matchup with Mt. Lebanon would be no different. Mt Lebanon took a penalty late in a scoreless first period and Brandon Hanley made them pay with a slick shot down on the ice past Colin Sebastian. Coach Paul Taibi's Blue Devils stood toe to toe with Pennsylvania's # 1 ranked team and David Silverstein delivered with a long blast which beat Delbert Joo cleanly at 6:17 of the second. Before the Blue Devils could celebrate the tie game, David Zabkar put a little mustard on a wrist shot just 42 seconds later on the ice past Sebastian to quickly dispell Mt Lebo's upset hopes. Mt Lebanon had a couple of chances going forward on a few odd man breaks, but Tony Sands took a Jason McLean feed and snapped the Blue Devils dreams with a 3-1 Bethel advantage. Bethel moved on to the finals for the second consecutive year. CENTRAL CATHOLIC 8 UPPER ST CLAIR 3 Central coach Kevin Zielmanski is always worried about something. After sweeping through North Hills and North Allegheny by scoring 14 goals yesterday to reach their own Semi-Final, coach Z wondered if his young squad had any goals left. Thomas Grossman scored two goals as the Vikings received single tallies from Jeff Race, Andrew Wroblewski, Rob Donatucci, John Chmiel, C.J. Bruce and Anthony Scolieri to paste Upper St Clair 8-3. Central built a 6-1 lead over the Panthers and never looked back as they outshot USC 26-19. Adam Brindle scored a pair of goals in a losing cause.