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All your local SPORTS stories. Monday, June 25, 2001
Sharks come up short


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  • By MICHAEL RADANO
    Courier-Post Staff
    CAMDEN

    If ever one play demonstrated the frustration of the Camden Riversharks, look no further than the ninth inning Sunday.

    The Sharks trailed by two with runners on second and third and no one out. Brad Strauss hit a slicing line drive down the left-field line that looked to be a game tying double. But for this team, in this half, it was only fitting that Newark left fielder Eduardo Reyes tracked down the ball and held the Sharks to a single run.

    Newark completed a three-game sweep of the Sharks with a 6- 5 win Sunday. The game had a little of everything for the 3, 422 in attendance, including several ejections. Those tossed included Newark starter Jamie Navarro, Sharks catcher Guillermo Garcia and, finally, Sharks manager Wayne Krenchicki. Garcia and Krenchicki left in the top of the ninth and were equally disgusted by home plate umpire Bruce Martin's erratic strike zone.

    "His strike zone fluctuated the whole game," Krenchicki said."He was aggressive calling strikes early on. Then he was afraid to call people out. Then he got aggressive again and in the ninth it shrunk. I knew the two pitches were strikes. I could see my catcher jawing with him. Of course ( Martin) had to showboat it and he walked around to confront my catcher."

    The Sharks held a 3-2 lead after Newark scored a pair of runs in the top of the sixth.

    Dwight Maness led off the bottom of the sixth with a single and promptly took second with his eighth steal of the season. Jacob Brumfield then executed a perfect sacrifice bunt to get Maness to third with one out.

    All season Krenchicki has been aggressive in sending runners home and the theory has been for the most part successful. His theory was put to the test when Guillermo Garcia hit a short fly to right center. Center fielder Ric Johnson made the catch but his throw was up the third base line. Maness slid past the front of the plate and caught it with his right hand for a 4-2 lead.

    Newark's Navarro disagreed with the call. As he walked to the mound he made his feelings known to Martin and he was tossed from the game.

    From that point, Navarro shoved one of his teammates, had to be restrained at one point or another by five teammates, and threw two coolers onto the field.

    His final act was to slap one of the Campbell's Field video cameras that was filming his tirade.









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