Cam Eden Powers Tarpons Past Mighty Mussels in Series Opener!

TAMPA, Fla - The Tampa Tarpons (26-22) handled business in the first game of their series against the Fort Myers Mighty Mussels (21-28) in a 9-3 victory.

Starting pitcher, Gage Ziehl, faced adversity in the top half of the second. The Yankees' 16th ranked prospect saw himself in a bases loaded jam with only one out. Ziehl then induced a 6-4-3 double play to get out of the inning unscathed.

The Tarpons offense fed off that momentum and jumped out to an early lead courtesy of a Dillon Lewis RBI single past a diving shortstop, an RBI single by Austin Green, and an RBI chopper by Roderick Arias.

Cam Eden made progress on his rehab assignment as he went 3-5 including a RBI triple down the left field line in the bottom half of the third.

Fort Myers’s Caleb McNeely tried to slow the Tarpons’ momentum with a solo homerun in the fourth but the Tarpons quickly answered with their highest scoring inning of the game.

The Tarpons scored four runs in the fourth aided by Mighty Mussels errors and another RBI single by Lewis to extend the lead, 8-1.

In the top of the fifth, Mighty Mussels left fielder, Jay Thomason, singled in a run to cut the lead down to 6.

Brain Sanchez responded for the Tarpons with an RBI single of his own to plate the Tarpons' ninth and final run.

Fort Myers scratched across a run in the eighth thanks to a Blaze O’Saben but it would prove to not be enough as the Tarpons would defeat the Mighty Mussels, 9-3.

The Tarpons will be back in action at “The Tank” tomorrow night for game two against Fort Myers at 6:30pm.