Photo album: Devil of a night
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John Wilcher with his wife, Chris, and children, Robbie, Heidi, Ron and Sandy
Megan Rigos pictured with her parents, Jim and Patty, and her former softball coach Nicole Jouver.
Christine Medwig with friend, Shelley Heisey-Saba, and parents, Tom and Ming.
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Leslie Benintend with her husband, Richard Kiernan.
Seatet, at left, is Don Moore with Wayne Wagoner; standing are Russ Jones and Mike Agostinella.
Mt. Lebanon football coach Bob Palko, center, poses for a picture with with Kee and Tiffany Song.
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Mt. Lebanon athletic director John Grogan with Tony Ranalli
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Eric and Chris Kessler
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Colette and Bill Lewis with Mt. Lebanon wrestling coach Marc Allemang. Mr. Lewis serves on the Hall of Champions selection committee.
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Kathy and Joe Chavez attended on behalf of their daughter, Jane, who is a freshman at Holy Cross. She combined with Molly Mangan (Naval Academy), Flynn Begor (Brown University) and Patrice Smith to win the 4x100-meter relay at the WPIAL championships.
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2019 WPIAL boys’ championship basketball team members: Andy Sapp, Blaine Gartley, Tom Peters (seated); Tyler Bluemling, Jake Hoffman, Jae King and Joe David.
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Hannah Morelli, Meredith and Maddie Dorish combined with Trinity Ward (Kentucky), Sophia Donati (Bucknell) and Elizabeth McDyer (Case-Western) to win WPIAL and PIAA titles in swimming relay action.
The old and the new, the gold and the blue were celebrated and regaled during the annual Mt. Lebanon Hall of Champions event held Sept. 28 at Cefalo’s Banquet Hall in Carnegie. The Hall of Fame Class included the school’s most recent WPIAL and PIAA champions, as well as All-State and All-America selections. Among the highly-decorated 2018-19 student-athletes were: Patrick Anderson, Julian LaLama, Luke Stout, Trinity Ward and Maddie Reisinger as well as the boys’ basketball squad along with several track and swimming relays. Additionally, the Hall welcomed several Distinguished Blue Devils, including: soccer standouts Christine Medwig and Leslie Benintend; softball pitching ace Megan Rigos, contributor Don Moore, coach John Wilcher and the 1984 boys’ championship soccer club. Parents, friends, school administrators and members of the prestigious Blue Devil Club, which supports scholastic sports, enjoyed na evening of reminiscing the past and present achievements of the athletes.