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Wednesday, April 30, 1975
University Daily Kansan
Paulsen an old pro at women's softball
By BOB HANSON Sports Writer
Name the last pitcher to start all seven games of a World Series. No one has ever started all seven games, you say. Wrong. Penny. Paulsen has.
Paulsen is a pitcher on the University of Kansas women's softball team. Last year she led KU to fourth place in the College tournament, and the team wants to lead KU to the championship.
Paulsen, a Wheatland, Iowa, senior, has been the mainstay of the women's softball team for three years. In fact, she was the only pitcher on the team she played in, and she played KU softball coach. Hence the seven-game pitching stint during last year's World Series.
But the reason she's been the mainstay of the team isn't that she's been the only pitcher. It's that she's been a good player. "I think she's one of the best college pitchers in the country," Drysdale said Monday. "She's done a fantastic job."
Paulsen relies on a natural football, Decembrer said, and is currently working on the team.
But what amazes Drysdale is Paulsen's consistency.
"She doesn't have ups or downs during the season or during a game," Drysdale said. "In fact, she's often stronger at the end of a game."
Besides her natural fastball, Paulsen has other pitching strongpoints. Paulsen is always thinking about the situation she's in and how hard her son's pitch against, endodors, puts it.
"I try to use strategy and out-think them." Paulsen said.
She said, for example, that she would look at the batter's position in relation to the plate and then would pitch accordingly. If the batter is crowding the plate, she will work on hitting the batter away from the plate, she will work on hitting the outside corner.
Paulsen has the ability to move the ball around at will.
"I can throw drops, curves and risers, but
don't know when we're going to happen," she
said. "We're just doing what we have to do."
Paulsen said she had been working on her speed and consistency in junior high.
when she first began playing softball seriously. In high school, she played softball for four years and also participated in women's basketball and track.
Her high school coach taught her the basics of pitching, but Paulsen has since developed her own style. She uses a figure- eight windup, in which she swings her arm around the back of her head and then strikes the ball, completing the figure- eight motion.
After high school, Pauline continued pitching as a freshman at Iowa Wesleyan College. Then she transferred to KU, almost on a whim.
"I'd heard that KU had a good physical education program and I was interested in physical therapy at that time," she said. "Since I was from a high school and had gone to a small college, I just wanted to try something big."
Paulsen tried out for the softball team
he played on here. She has played on
the baseball team as well.
Although she pitched a no-hitter against Kansas State University and a one-hitter against the current national champion, Arizona State University, her greatest thrill came when she played in the College World Series. Paulsen said.
"It was the best experience in athletics I've ever had," she said. "We played on an Astrofurst field because it had rained and we played all day and into the night. Then we got up early the next day and played again."
Despite her success, Paulsen hasn't been bigheaded. In fact, she doesn't even have a head.
"I don't keep track of it," she said, "I'd get messed up if I did."
She said that the KU team, which had an 11-5 record this spring, had set a goal of winning the World Series this year. The first step toward that goal will be May 23, when the team plays in the Kansas college tournament.
Paulsen will graduate this spring with a major in physical education. She said she probably would teach for a while but still in getting in a physical therapy degree.
But, whatever she decides, she said she'd still play softball.
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Two things have eluded the University of Kansas baseball team all year—outstanding pitching and a come-from-behind victory.
KU takes Baker in doubleheader
KU came back in the fourth inning with two-run singles by Noske and Troun. Ron MacDonald wrapped up the five-run inning with a single, which allowed Troun to score.
Bruce Eyebel provided the big blow with a shot that cut off KU's pitcher, Nate Thurhoff.
KU, behind excellent pitching from Brian Rhodes, a seldom used starter, sneaked past Bakers 40 in the first game. KU then defeated Washington 4-2 fourth innning to win the second game 6-4.
But the Jayhawks found both of them at Quigley Field Tuesday when they swept a doubleheader from Baker University.
In the first game, Rhodes allowed only two plays, as out eight players and allowed one player to advance.
The 'Hawks face a major test this weekend when they take on the league-leading Oklahoma Sooners in a three-game series at Quigley Field.
In the first game KU scored lone runs in the third and the fifth innings.
distance for KU. Rhodes' season record now is 2.2.
Coach Floyd Temple said after the game that Rhodes' performance made him wonder whether he had been starting the best pitchers this season.
Randy Trout walked to open the third and then advanced to second on a sacrifice by Andy Glilmore. Trout then scored on a single by Kurt Knoff.
Rob Allinden, who relieved David Peter in the third, got the win for the 'Hawks. His defense was stellar.
In the second game Baker jumped off to a 4-1 lead in the first inning. The Wildcats
In the fifth, Gary Noske reached first on an error, advanced to second on a wild pitch and then struck out.
Temple said he was pleased with the way KU came from behind to win.
"We gave up four easy ones in the first, when we needed them," Temple
KU's record now stands at 13-19 overall
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