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Bethel Park - Bethel Park and Mt Lebanon before a packed house at the Bethel Bladerunners, what could be more exciting than that ! The Blue Devils have been scrapping all season and have been working toward another meeting with Bethel. The Blackhawks on the other hand are trying to erase a little history. BP has only given up 7 goals in 14 contests, and is looking to set a record for least goals against in a regular season, which is 18 held by North Catholic (1981), and duplicated by Bishop McCort and Pine Richland during the mid-1990's. Well enough of that, the game started out with Bethel gaining a 12-5 shot advantage in the scoreless opening period. Mt Lebanon may have had the best opportunity as Jason Schulz was stoned by Delbert Joo. On to the second and the play evened up considerably as Mt Lebanon had several chances as did Bethel. Joo and Colin Sebastian kept the teams off the board until the Blackhawks clutch scorer Lee Volensky broke in alone and beat Sebastian to make it 1-0 at 7:06. Mt Lebanon looked to tie the game and at 6:07 a shot from just inside the blue line trickled toward the empty net and Joo dove on it before it crossed the line. Then the Blue Devils went on the power play at 2:07. Mike Colligan walked around the Bethel defense, but Joo stopped him at 1:07. Less than a minute later, Jason Schulz had a point blank shot, but again Joo came up big, preserving the slim one goal lead. Mt Lebanon was coming on and Colligan blasted a shot with 10:00 to go and Delbert Joo made another great save with the glove. Bethel began to feed off the strong performance by their goalkeeper and started a relentless forecheck. The result was Tim Hramika, who danced around the Lebo D and lofted a shot past the glove side of Sebastian to give Bethel a 2-0 lead. Mt Lebanon would not quit and Colligan found Schulz behind the Bethel blueliners and he moved in and beat the Bethel goalie to cut the lead to 2-1 with 1:07 remaining. The Blue Devils pulled the goalie and Colligan was loose in the BP zone with a great chance and just missed. The Hawks held on the final 55 seconds and pulled out an exciting 2-1 victory.