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Thursdav.Mav 6.1976
University Daily Kansan
Kansas softball coach a 'hard-nosed' softie
By KRIS ECKEL
it all started back in the spring of 1973. It was softball season. Shrine-Dryale's dale
for the ball, and he took the ball to softball.
Things didn't look too promising for a team with a record of 2-2 from the previous season. But the University of Kansas softball team won the state championship and went on to place fifth in the College World Series.
For the fourth straight year now, the KU softball team will return to the AIW College World Series with Drysdale still coaching.
Dryadale could give no explanation for the number of talented women who went out for work.
"I'm really not sure why," Drydale said, "but some of the talent came down from the Hill. I think they enjoyed themselves, began to enjoy them; they were making progress and staved."
They also stayed because they had the heat of coaching that produces a winning flick.
Dryadale classified herself as a "nice-
ger" type of coach, but some of her players
were not.
"I'd say she was hard-nosed," said Paul Frank, startling catcher. "She keeps you on your toes all the time. You never know if you're going to start or not, so you just have to keep up all the time. She doesn't like superstars."
Janet Brown, a first baseman and three-year veteran on the team, agreed with
"The hard-nosed but she doesn't have a hard-nosed manner," she said. "She's not going to embarrass you. In practice, you have to be on up your toes because you might lose your spot. She gives everyone an even shot."
"Basically, our athletes want someone who knows the sport," Drysdale said. "They also want someone they can relate to. They don't have to be pushed. They want to be pressed. And they want to see some progress and some improvement. So they want to know what they're doing wrong and what they have to do." Drysdale said they're much like their male counterparts.
There are other similarities between men's baseball and women's softball, she said. The competition can be just as fierce; it can be just as fast. But there are differences.
Drydaile said she thought the differences were caused by the comparative newness of her methods.
"THE PLAYERS ON the men's team have had a lot of opportunities; they have a lot of male role models, she said. "All they have to do is turn on the television on a Saturday afternoon or a Monday night and they see men baseball players."
"With them as models they develop those habits; they develop the little quirks of tapping their clefts with their bats to get the dirt out and all of the bench jockeying that goes on. They have a very organized, professional, objective way of looking at the sport and it does, in a way, become a job rather than just play.
"OUR WOMEN HAVEN'T had much opportunity, and they really want to learn," Drysdale said. "They don't have any models. They have the men. So even though they make them makers they may tap foot because they think that's what makes a boy player.
"But they're making their own inroads, and they don't have any standards ahead of time. They're just kins of forging their own self-esteem," I think IRESS want to surprise themselves."
There are emotional differences, too,
according to Drysdale.
"We have a couple of highly excitable athletes," Drysdale said, "the kind that, when they make a good catch, jump up and down and just about do cartwheels. We've had some that were just as prone to cry as they were to laugh, and I don't think this has anything to do with the fact that they are women.
"ITS JUST THAT they are more overt about how they feel about the game and how they feel about their catches. I like that use it tends to pick up the rest of the team."
But what's in it for Drysdale? What are her rewards?
"They're certainly not monetary. There's no way that a woman can make a living in coaching right now. I do it because I like to see the students that come in make progress and become ball players by the time they graduate.
'THEY COME IN with very little expertise, and they learn the fundamentals and the game. I like to see them handle stress; I like to see them go to something like a national tournament and then develop their performance as well as in their school.'
"But it's the subtle rewards. It's seeing someone smile when they do something good or seeing the progress, although you have a lot of back slapping from the athletes."
Rovals rout Sox, 8-4
Otis unloaded his third homer of the
season in the fifth inning to tie the game at
14-2.
BOSTON AP)—Amos Otis slammed his third home run in two games, and Cookie Rojas knocked in three runs to lead the Nets past the past Red Boston Sox. 8-4, last night.
The Royals went ahead in the sixth on a fielder's choice and widened the lead in the
seventh on a bases-loaded single by Rojas, which drove in two runs.
Tom Pouquerie singled past second with the bases loaded in the ninth, driving in two more runs, and Rojas singled home the final Kansas City run.
Jim Rice had brought Boston to within one point, at 5-4 in the eighth when he drove in two runs with a double off the center field wall.
Pitching was again the name of the game for the University of Kansas baseball team as it swept a double-header from Missouri Western yesterday in St. Joseph, Mo.
By JOHN HENDEL Sports Writer
Coach Floyd Temple credited the team's pitching for the pair of 2-1 wins.
KU tags Western twice
First-game starter Brian Rhodes pitched six and two-thirds innings, losing his shutout in the seventh inning. Rob Allinder got the call to retire the final Western hitter.
Kevin Kerschen started the second game for the Jayhawks. He gave up one hit in the first inning and two hits in the second. Kerschen then went to work.
BUT THE FIRST game was only a warm-up. The real surprise was vet to come.
He proceeded to retire the next 21 batters he faced, pitching all nine innings of a six-game streak.
"Kerschen was surprise," Temple said. "He hadn't计提 in two weeks, but he was
TO KM RATTLL, sidelined after colliding with catcher Gilmore while chasing a ball, then reentered the beader last Tuesday, pitch in the ninth imming and drove the winning run across.
throwing strikes and getting ahead of the hitters."
Another hitting highlight was Brian Moyer's third home run of the season.
A pleasant surprise for Temple yesterday was the disappearance of his team's fielding problems of Tuesday (seven errors in the doubleheader).
"Yesterday's (Tuesday)'s" fielding was very bad. Temple said, but today it was good. The game ended with Temple.
The wine boost KU's record is 23-12, and the bike record is now 5-2. Kieren move on to 28-16.
The Jayhawks now travel to Oklahoma City for the Big Eight Tournament. Their first opponent will be Oklahoma State on Saturday.
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