Wayne Graham
Wayne Graham
Wayne Leon Grahamis a former major-league baseball player and the head coach of the Rice Owls baseball team in Houston, Texas. He has coached one College World Series championship team and five NJCAA World Series champions...
ahead although blew boys confidence couple half job main scoring second taken tough
We blew a couple of scoring opportunities in the second half but the main thing is that we got the job done in the end. The boys have taken a lot of confidence from that although there is another tough one ahead this week.
focus good guys pitching
We're going to have to find some more pitching somewhere. I think the guys can do it if they just focus on making good pitches.
against forward great guys looking measure opportunity ourselves
We know what we are up against but our guys are looking forward to it. It's a great opportunity to measure ourselves up against the best.
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We're playing on a really good field over there and against a good team. It's a good opportunity to get ahead of the game. We need to win the series over there bad.
catch guy happened pitch
He just happened to get a pitch up and the guy (Russell) happened to catch it.
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This is the sort of game where those guys lead the way and the younger players will be looking to feed off their direction.
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Josh is a quality hitter, and against Long Beach it showed that we can not afford to have his bat out of the lineup. So until his arm is well, against quality opponents we're going to have to have Josh either play left field with a long relay man or play first base. His bat has got to be in the lineup.
bracket craig improved sure
We've still got a bracket with Craig and Adam. Craig's improved significantly but we need to be sure he's fine,