By DON BENEVENTO
Courier-Post Staff
CAMDEN
There was to be no sweep for Camden on Wednesday, but this was a night on which the Riversharks lost more than a game.
The Ducks salvaged the series finale with a 6-0 win behind the pitching of Jim Bullinger, who allowed four hits over eight innings, before 5,241 spectators at Campbell's Field.
The Riversharks also lost second baseman Brian Sherlock, who left the game in the second inning with a broken tibia in his left leg.
A Medford resident and a Bishop Eustace Prep graduate, Sherlock was taken to Pennsylvania Hospital for treatment. According to general manager John Brandt, Sherlock probably will be out for the remainder of the season.
``Anytime you lose a player to a serious injury like that,'' Sharks manager Wayne Krenchicki said, ``it puts a damper on your day.''
Sherlock was injured after P.J. Williams slid into him, after breaking up a potential double play in the middle of the game-breaking, three-run inning.
Brad Strauss, a Haddon Township High School graduate who was playing third base for the Sharks at the time, had some questions about the validity of Williams' slide.
``It looked like he slid late, but it's hard to say,'' Strauss said. ``The shame of the whole thing was I don't think that we really had a chance to turn the double play.''
Krenchicki thought the slide came late, but he didn't question Williams' motives.
``The guy's playing hard, trying to break up a double play,'' he said. ``You see slides like that 100 times where nothing happens. But it happened that this was a bad one.''
Meanwhile, Bullinger had things well under control for the Ducks while raising his record to 5-0.
He had a no-hitter going into the fifth inning before Dan Held led off with a single. Jacob Brumfield followed with an infield hit to give the Sharks their biggest threat of the night, but Darrell Nicholas struck out and Guillermo Garcia hit into an inning-ending double play.
``We needed a big hit there to get something started, but we didn't get it,'' Krenchicki said. ``Bullinger just threw a good game.''
Starting pitcher Ted Silva got into trouble in the first inning when he gave up a monster two-run homer to Francisco Morales, over the 416-foot sign in right-center field.
Then, in the second inning, Williams delivered the big blow when he drove in two runs with a bases-loaded single.
Williams was still on first base when Justin Davies hit a ground ball to shortstop John Dorman, who flipped the ball to Sherlock for the force. However, that's when Williams slid hard into Sherlock, causing the injury. Juan Bautista scored the Ducks' fifth run.
The Riversharks travel to play tonight against Somerset, which signed former Phillies farm hand Pete Rose Jr. Wednesday.
