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Jaguars - Cobras Square Off in
Battle of Two of the Area’s Top
Baseball Programs

March 31, 2014 – Port St. Lucie, FL > The Port St. Lucie
Jaguar Baseball Team downed the Fort Pierce Central Cobras in a non-district matchup of the area’s top two base-

ball teams on Monday 7-3 at Jaguar Field in Port St. Lucie.

Port St. Lucie will host Jensen Beach on Friday at 3PM at
Tradition Field while Central plays at John Carroll on

Wednesday for a 6PM game and then travels to Vero on
Friday for a 4PM start time.

Central – Vero Baseball duel
goes into extra innings.

With key district match-ups this week for both teams two

April 4, 2014 – Vero Beach, FL > Fort Pierce Central and

rested their arms. Jag Senior ace Mark Stewart and Cobra

at The Reservation on the Vero Beach High School cam-

of the hottest flame throwers on the Treasure Coast
Freshman sensation Brandon Stone each played position

slots for the day leaving the heavy work to Tyler Anshaw
for PSL and Omar Gomez for the Cobras.

Vero Beach battled into extra innings tonight in a thriller
pus, with the Indians coming out on top 7-6 in 8 innings
in a game that saw 7 lead changes.

Anshaw went 5 innings allowing 4 hits and 2 runs while
walking 4 and fanning 6 with 61% of his pitches landing in
the strike zone. Gomez threw for 2 1/3 innings allowing 6
hits and 4 runs.

Zach Taglieri picked up the save for the Jags, throwing for

2 innings striking out 5 Cobra batters and landing 60% of
his pitches in the strike zone.

Kevin Croke and Willie Micco pitched in relief for Central.
The game saw plenty of fire power at the plate as the
teams combined for a total of 15 hits. Stewart led the way
for the Jags with two hits while Cobra Senior Sam Vaughn
had 2 hits and 2 RBI’s.

Micco scored a pair of runs for Central and connected at

the plate for a hit as well. Other Cobras making contact
included Stone and Vinny Lucera.

For the Jags, Anshaw, Chris Batista, Enrique Esquivel, Dar-

ius Diaz, Chris Durden, Robert Ocasio, A.J. Alexio and Alex Port St. Lucie 10th grader Zach Taglieri was impressive all
spring for the Jag’s and may find himself in the Starting RoLopez each had base hits.
tation next year should he continue to improve in the off
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