CLARKSBURG — Eight returning first-team selections and five girls who played in the title game highlight the 2010 Class A all-state softball first team as selected by the West Virginia Sports Writers Association.

Topping the list as captain of the first team — to nobody’s surprise — is Man’s Marlena Frye.

The senior pitcher led the Hillbillies to state titles in her junior and sophomore seasons and to a runner-up finish to South Harrison this season.

This is the West Virginia State signee’s second consecutive year being named as captain of the first team. She led Man to a 22-7 record.

‘‘Softball always starts with the pitcher,’’ Man coach Randy Epperly said. ‘‘(Frye) has got the ball in her hand to start every play. That position is going to stand out anyway, but more than that, she’s been big for us.

‘‘This (loss in the Class A championship game) will probably hurt her for a while because she happened to be playing third base on the last error of the game. But the game wasn’t lost there.’’

Frye finished her pitching career with a one-hit, 6-0 shutout victory.

Joining her on the first team are three players, Tasha Hall, Alex McAtee and Jessica Puddister, off South Harrison’s 25-9 state championship squad.

‘‘They all meant a lot to our team,’’ South Harrison coach Karson Richards said. ‘‘Of course, Alex is a senior and we’ll be losing her, but she played real well through the season and came up big at the state tournament.’’

Hall was a junior pitcher and, like Frye, another three-time first-team selection.

She finished the year with 224 strikeouts and 57 walks in 173 1-3 innings of work. Hall gave up 58 runs and 89 hits en route to a 20-7 season with one save on the mound. She was batting better than .333 heading into the state tournament.

‘‘Tasha pitched really well,’’ Richards said. ‘‘She came through when we needed her to.’’

Hall tossed a no-hitter against Fayetteville in the opening round of the state tournament and scored the winning run against Man to earn the Hawks their first state title in school history.

McAtee was a versatile player for the Hawks, playing some at catcher and third base before settling in at shortstop down the stretch. She hit .316 for the season and was second-team captain her junior season.

The Hawks’ freshman first baseman, Puddister, was the surprise of the season. She led the Hawks in hitting during the season, batting .353 with 19 RBIs, and Puddister didn’t slow down in the state tournament, hitting .583 with 3 RBIs.

Puddister’s two-run home run against East Hardy in the Region II championship kept South Harrison’s season alive.

‘‘(Puddister) came in a little lackadaisical, and then picked it up,’’ Richards said. ‘‘She really hit the ball when we needed her to and played really well.’’

Charleston Catholic’s Ally Hoyer and Marty Kay Wilcox, Cameron’s Tara Paczewski, Wirt County’s Emma Cox, Fayetteville’s Shandi Myles and Man’s Paige Stacy round out the returning first-team selections.

Hoyer, a junior pitcher, went 13-9 with 115 strikeouts and batted .416 with 26 RBIs, while Wilcox, a junior shortstop, hit .527 with 10 home runs and 34 RBIs for the Irish.

Paczewski went 21-5 with 245 strikeouts in her sophomore season for the Dragons.

Cox continued to lead the Tigers from the mound in her senior season, while Myles hit .526 and committed only two errors in the field at shortstop for the Pirates in her final season.

Stacy was a power-hitting, senior outfielder for the Hillbillies.

Buffalo’s Tara Mays at utility, Notre Dame’s Maryrose Burns and Wahama’s Taylor Hysell at outfielder and Meadow Bridge’s Cayli Bolen at catcher joined McAtee in moving up from last year’s second team.

Mays hit .433, Burns batted .544 with 32 stolen bases, Hysell hit .411 with 23 RBIs and Bolen batted .348 with 60 stolen bases.

First-time selections included St. Marys’ Abby Fetty and Cameron’s Kelsey Allen in the infield, Madonna’s Samantha Myers at catcher and East Hardy’s Ashley Dove at utility.

Fetty hit .413 with five home runs, Allen hit 416 with nine home runs and 24 RBIs, Myers hit .570 with five home runs and 40 RBIs and Dove .492 with 33 RBIs.

The second team consisted of pitchers Morgan Wheeler of Fayetteville, Rebecca Stewart of Madonna, Tara Hanson of Trinity, Mandy Cokeley of St. Marys and Taylor Zuber of Moorefield; infielders Hannah Lloyd of Buffalo, Morgan Hughes of Cameron, Samantha Elkins of Fayetteville, Emily Weiford of Notre Dame and Whitney Sandy of Williamstown; outfielders Cody Evick of Pendleton County, Morgan Fuenty of St. Marys and Danielle Varner of Clay-Battelle; catchers Cassie Campbell of Bishop Donohue and Ashlie LaFalce of Doddridge County; and utility players Tara Havens of Montcalm, Marisa Johnson of Big Creek and captain Sara Sang of Huntington St. Joseph.

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Information from: The Exponent Telegram, http://www.cpubco.com