The Almanac: Lebo, BP, USC lead the Diamond Dozen list

This spring, Mt. Lebanon enjoyed one of its more successful baseball seasons since winning a WPIAL championship six years ago.

After slipping into the playoffs as the third-place team out of Section 3, the Blue Devils played some of the finest baseball ever seen during an extended playoff run. Lebo reached the WPIAL finals and advanced to the Final Four in the western regional of the PIAA playoffs before wrapping up a 15-10 campaign.

While the Blue Devils exhibited teamwork and excellence in all aspects of the game, a group of talented contributors factored mightily into Lebo's triumphs.

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• www.thealmanac.net/alm/sportstory11/06-20-2012-diamond-dozen (The Almanac)

P-G: Pirates select former Mt. Lebanon player Steranka

Through 24 rounds of the Major League Baseball draft, no WPIAL high school player has been selected. But the Pirates picked a former WPIAL player.

In the 21st round, the Pirates selected Penn State first baseman Jordan Steranka, who is a graduate of Mt. Lebanon High School. Steranka had a big senior season at Penn State. He was second in the Big Ten Conference in batting average (.363), first in slugging percentage (.615), first in doubles (20) and third in home runs (11). He was a first-team all-Big Ten selection.

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• blogs.sites.post-gazette.com/index.php/sports/varsity-blog/34385-pirates-select-former-mt-lebanon-player-steranka (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

Patch: 'A Really Comfortable Place': New Primanti Bros. Open For Business

The story of Primanti Bros. goes back to the 1930s, when Joe Primanti started pushing a cart around Pittsburgh's Strip District to sell sandwiches.

Around the same time, construction started on a building in Mt. Lebanon, near the Upper St. Clair line, that later served as home to a realty company.

After nearly 80 years, the sandwiches have met the building, which is home to the latest Primanti Bros. restaurant.

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• upperstclair.patch.com/articles/a-really-comfortable-place-new-primanti-bros-opens-for-business (Upper St. Clair Patch)

Trib: Customers can top off their cool treats with more delectables at Betsy's

The ice-cream maker Betsy Miller received for her wedding shower in 2010 led to a shop full of gallons of this cool, refreshing treat.

It was part of the inspiration behind her and husband Ryan's venture into opening an ice-cream store. They made some for a family cookout, and it got such rave reviews, they knew what they were called to do next. They named the place Betsy's. It's in the heart of Mt. Lebanon along Washington Road.

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• www.triblive.com/aande/1886103-74/cream-ice-miller-betsy-says-flavors-ryan-shop-lebanon-love (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)

Patch: The Fresh Market Could Be Coming To Mt. Lebanon

The Fresh Market could soon be coming to the South Hills.

The gourmet supermarket chain is seeking approval from Mt. Lebanon commissioners to demolish the Roth Carpet building at the corner of Washington and Connor roads and build the new grocery store.

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• chartiersvalley.patch.com/articles/the-fresh-market-could-be-coming-to-mt-lebanon (Chartiers Valley Patch)

PG: Just a bruisin': A charged Mt. Lebanon student is treated fairly

Back in the day, when teenage boys had crewcuts and met girls wearing poodle skirts and bobbie socks down at the drug store for a malted, they said that someone courting trouble was "cruisin' for a bruisin'."

Fast forward to our less innocent time. Mitchell Klemencic, a senior at Mt. Lebanon High School, was cruisin' for a bruisin' -- and, what's more, he knew it. Every student in Mt. Lebanon signs a statement acknowledging that they have read and understand school policy.

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• www.post-gazette.com/stories/opinion/editorials/just-a-bruisin-a-charged-mt-lebanon-student-is-treated-fairly-637960

P-G: Obituary: Mary L. Alleman / Leading maize scientist at Duquesne University

NOTE: Dr. Alleman was a Mt. Lebanon resident. The family and friends of Mary Alleman, associate professor of biological sciences at Duquesne University, can only assume the yellow cornfields sprawling across her small Illinois hometown sparked a fascination with the plant.

Ms. Alleman became a leading scientist in the field of maize genetics and a professor who demanded the most from her students and colleagues.

"The first plant that was really studied in any detail was maize," said her colleague David Lampe, an associate professor of biological sciences. "It has a really, really long history of people working on this, and she was really good at it."

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• www.post-gazette.com/stories/local/obituaries/obituary-mary-l-alleman-leading-maize-scientist-at-duquesne-university-640212/ (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

Trib: Deer culling program weighed in Mt. Lebanon

Torn between tales of disease-carrying deer turning roads into obstacle courses and residents concerned about expert shooters possibly being allowed to fire into private property at night with high-powered, silenced rifles, the Mt. Lebanon commission is weighing whether to resurrect a deer-culling program like those used in Upper St. Clair, Bethel Park and Fox Chapel.

The commission is considering a ban on deliberately feeding deer and will host a town hall meeting in the coming weeks to discuss reinstating some form of population control for herds of deer that live in the municipality's parks and backyards.

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• www.triblive.com/news/1889581-74/deer-lebanon-commission-sharpshooters-clair-culling-meeting-program-upper-kelley (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)

Trib: Seneca Valley knocks off Mt. Lebo to defend title

Seneca Valley starter Matt Smith’s strikeouts were the difference for the first six innings Wednesday.

His teammates handled the seventh.

With runners on first and second, Seneca Valley shortstop Zach Creedon turned a game-ending double play in last night’s 5-3 victory over Mt. Lebanon in the WPIAL Class AAAA baseball championship at Consol Energy Park.

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• www.triblive.com/sports/1875820-85/smith-seneca-valley-allowed-lebanon-wpial-bahm-duffy-run-six (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)

Trib: Mt. Lebanon lacrosse reaches state semifinals

Will Nabors lived for the moment, and Mt. Lebanon’s lacrosse season lives on.

The junior goalie turned away 13 shots — nine in the second half — as Mt. Lebanon hung on to beat Shady Side Academy, 8-7, in the PIAA quarterfinals Saturday at Hampton High School.

Chris O’Dell and Doran Graham each had two goals for Mt. Lebanon (16-6), which advanced to the state semifinals for the second straight year. The Blue Devils face La Salle College on Tuesday.

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• www.triblive.com/sports/1893806-85/lebanon-shady-game-wpial-blue-devils-goal-gotta-nabors-goalie (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)