By Staff report
The University of Charleston women's softball team, which made its first trip to the Division II Women's College World Series last season, was picked Thursday to finish second in the Mountain East Conference's South Division in a preseason poll of conference coaches.
West Virginia Wesleyan, which beat Charleston for the MEC tournament crown but lost to the Golden Eagles in the NCAA Super Regionals, was picked to win the South. The Bobcats earned nine first-place votes to Charleston's three.
West Virginia State was predicted to finish fifth in the six-team South with 32 points. Shepherd was picked to win the MEC North Division, with Wheeling Jesuit picked to finish second.