MPC softball

 For nine members of the reigning two-time Coast Conference South champion Lobos, this isn't their first taste of the postseason.
 Unfulfilled might best describe MPC, who hosts Sequoias today in a best-of-three regional playoff game.
 Last year's fallout in the opening round, in which MPC dropped the last two games after winning the opener, has at times been used a fuel.
 The Lobos went out and won 30 games - 15 in a row during one stretch. They come into the playoffs riding a five game winning streak behind the arms of Sally Bowles and Shayla Castaneda.
 The pair both won 15 games in the circle this spring, with Bowles sporting a 1.44 earned run average and Castaneda a 1.88 ERA.
 Bowles shares the team lead in home runs for MPC with four, and has driven in a team high 38 runs while Serena Castaneda has four homers and is batting a team high .412 average.
 Seaside product Marielle Tuazon is hitting .365 for the Lobos while Carmel grad Lauren Salvati has raised her average to .343.
 Sequoias, the runner-ups in the Central Valley Conference to Reedley, will throw 24 game winner Arianna Guzman at the Lobos. The hard-thrower has recorded 189 strikeouts in 215 innings of work.
 Adriana Hayes has supplied a big bat in the lineup for Sequoias, leading the team in homers (7), runs scored (37), runs batted in (43) and average (.410).