Wayne Graham
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"Wayne Leon Graham" is 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.

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They've shown flashes of what they are about so far, so have we. So the team that best puts its imprint on the game will probably get the points!

It's been pretty tough on him with it hanging over his head. On Monday, I think, he had something like 26 interviews to do. But now with the book launch over he's been able to relax a bit. He had a good sleep last night and went flying yesterday (Wednesday). He's pretty focused now.

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.

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.

It's as much about good communication and trust as anything, but we're pleased with how it's come along and you saw the value of it last weekend when we were able to keep a pretty useful Canterbury side at bay.

We've worked harder this fall than we ever have because we started earlier, ... We started right when we could and started doing the individual work because we anticipate that we have a lot of talent and that there is some talent that we need to develop to fill in with the existing talent. It does look good.

This is the sort of game where those guys lead the way and the younger players will be looking to feed off their direction.

It's going to be a 10-day party.

That can happen, although it perhaps had as much to do with the quality of the opposition as anything.