I'm not sure how to do it in cvblob, if there's not a function in the code for it it wouldn't be too hard to write.
in simplecv you can get the Blobs as a FeatureSet and sort/filter eg:
blobs = img.findBlobs() #same params as CvThresh + CvLabel
left_sorted = FeatureSet(sorted(blobs, key=lambda f: f.x))
left_sorted_top_half_screen = left_sorted.filter(left_sorted.y() > img.height / 2)
It uses cvblob if you install my cvblob-python wrapper