For the second consecutive year, the Boston University softball team has been tabbed the preseason favorite in America East, following yesterday’s vote by the league’s head coaches.
The Terriers, coming off a banner 2007 season in which they produced the conference Player, Pitcher, Rookie and Coach of the Year, received five first-place votes and 47 total points to beat out the University at Albany (42) and University of Maryland-Baltimore County (35).
Stony Brook University (34) and the University of Hartford (23) earned the fourth and fifth slots, respectively, while the University of Maine (22), University of Vermont (12) and Binghamton University (9) round out the conference.
BU, which compiled a 34-14 record last spring en route to the regular season title, have advanced to five of the last six conference championships.