Ray Birmingham

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  "Winning at Texas is extremely hard to do in any sport," said UNM coach Ray Birmingham, "but we've got a chance to win the series, and our kids believe they can."

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  Published on: 4/19/2007    Last Visited: 11/10/2007  

  Coach Ray Birmingham thinks he's got a good enough team again this year to get back.
  
  "It validates all you do by winning a national championship," he said.
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  "We've put together a good club that's competitive enough to make it," Birmingham said.
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  "Lukas Thomason is a project arm," Birmingham said.
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  "The offense is the benchmark for T-bird baseball," Birmingham said."We're leading the country in hitting again.
  
  "In T-bird land, the Mendoza line is .400.We have posters on our wall that tell of all the .400 hitters since the beginning of the program."
  
  Sophomore Adalberto Santos, a transfer from Louisburg College, is leading the country in hitting (.523).
  
  "He was a bad hitter in the fall," Birmingham said."By the end of the fall he figured it out and has been on fire this spring."
  
  Sophomore Kevin Atkinson is hitting .480 with six home runs and 57 RBI.Sophomore Brian Cazavos-Galvez, a first-team All-American designated hitter last year, is batting .466 with six home runs and 62 RBI.
  
  The Thunderbirds also have great chemistry, Birmingham said.
  
  "We do a lot of group dynamic things," he said.

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  Lobo coach Ray Birmingham, who has been fighting an illness this week, admitted to giving his team a "butt-chewing" after it dropped the second game of Saturday's doubleheader to the Bears (1-3). The gist of it was he wanted to see faster starts.
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  Birmingham conceded he wasn't entirely satisfied by winning three of four, but gave Northern Colorado its due.
  
  "This is a good team that can beat anyone," he said of the Bears.

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  Coach Ray Birmingham's Lobos could not have picked a tougher way to open the 2009 season. Then again, the ever-optimistic Birmingham is right in describing it as a king-sized opportunity.
  
  "Texas is loaded, there's no doubt about that," Birmingham said.
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  Birmingham's enthusiasm has rubbed off on the Lobos, who will face Texas for the first time in school hisitory.
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  But the Lobos have made significant progress in Birmingham's first two seasons.
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  "We need consistency on the mound, which we haven't had," Birmingham said.
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  Birmingham, who led a College of the Southwest team into Austin years ago and nearly pulled off an upset win, is eager to see how his Lobos respond to such a giant challenge.
  
  "We've got a shot at the No. 1 team in the country," he said.

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  Published on: 5/31/2007    Last Visited: 5/31/2007  

  New Mexico coach Ray Birmingham also maintained perspective when he was asked by a local television station about how his team handled the pressure of trying to hold off a comeback against Cowley County Community College of Kansas in an elimination game.New Mexico held on for a 12-9 win to stay alive on Tuesday.
  
  Birmingham said his team didn't face any pressure.He said a single mother raising five children and trying to find a way to feed her kids faces pressure."This is fun," said Birmingham about the World Series.

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  UNM head baseball coach Ray Birmingham has a memo for all collegiate pitchers Consider walking these Lobos. he Lobos are trying to create their own Death Row - and we're not talking about the record label."I want murderers' row" Birmingham told GoLobos.

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  Published on: 7/22/2009    Last Visited: 7/22/2009  

  University of New Mexico baseball coach Ray Birmingham's son Josh played for the 1998 Bandits as an import. Birmingham, Laughlin's friend, is familiar with the tournament and will help the Thunder scout.

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  Published on: 5/28/2007    Last Visited: 11/10/2007  

  Two years ago, when umpires took away nearly all of the Thunderbirds' aluminum bats because they were dented, coach Ray Birmingham turned to Thompson and the other members of the now-disbanded Optimist Club for help.
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  "We had more than we needed," Birmingham said.
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  "We're fired up about that," Birmingham said.
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  "Ray is fairly focused," Thompson said.
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  Birmingham confirmed Thompson's beliefs.
  
  "We are there to win a national championship," Birmingham said.

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  "These were very important wins for us," UNM coach Ray Birmingham said.
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  "The offense we showed the last two days is what we are capable of," Birmingham said.
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  "We put up 100 runs in a four-game series with those guys," Birmingham said of a past experience at NMJC.

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  "We were lucky that Coach Birmingham made room on his schedule and allowed us to come and play them," Whittemore said.
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  Birmingham said it is strange to see a nonconference team four times in one season but the Thunderbirds coach didn't mind that they have faced Western Nevada that many times.
  
  "It is cool because I love playing them," Birmingham said.
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  "I like the competition of playing good teams," Birmingham said.

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