Even though it was an all-star game, Camden Riversharks manager Wayne Krenchicki had to be wondering what he had done to so offend the baseball gods.

The North posted a 10-0 win Wednesday night over the South in the Code Red Atlantic League All-Star Game, in front of 5,552 fans at the Bears & Eagles Riverfront Stadium, home of the Newark Bears.

Newark's Ric Johnson was named the game's Most Valuable Player, after going 2-for-2 with a pair of doubles and two runs scored.

"We joked about it in the dugout," Krenchicki said. "I felt like I was looking at the scoreboard at Campbell's Field. Maybe I'm a jinx."

For Krenchicki, who managed the South team, the final weeks of the first half were plagued by poor defensive play in the Sharks' outfield.

In the all-star game's first inning, the North used an error by Somerset's Greg Blosser to explode for five runs and take immediate command 5-0.

Atlantic City's Andy High started the game for the South and gave up an infield hit to Bridgeport's Angel Espada. After Espada stole second, Newark's Steve Hine drew a walk. After a fielder's choice moved Espada to third, Long Island' s Luis Raven hit a sacrifice fly to right, and High seemed on the verge of escaping with giving up a lone run.

Long Island's Tom Hage then lofted a short ball along the right-field line that Somerset second baseman Billy Hall and Blosser both drifted toward. After some confusion, Blosser called off Hall and then dropped the pop-up.

On the play Long Island's Carlos Baerga, who was on first with the fielder's choice, scored all the way from first and Hage went to second. A double by Johnson and then a two-run home run to left by Bridgeport's Orreste Marrero gave the North all the runs it needed.

In the fourth, the Sharks' Del Matthews struggled as he allowed three earned runs on four hits with one strikeout. The big hit was a two-out triple by Newark's Steve Hine into the left-center field gap that scored the final two runs of the inning.

Keeping with the theme of the night, the ball could have been cut off by Sharks left fielder Dwight Maness, but he took the wrong angle to the line drive. Then, Somerset center fielder Michael Warner mishandled the ball.

The Sharks' Ryan Schurman fared better as he struck out two in the fifth, but a Hage home run over the left field wall, that Maness almost pulled back from obscurity, ruined his effort.

"I was hoping (Maness) would have it," Schurman said. " If he could have come up with that, it would have been great. He really made a great effort. You know this park - it's not fair. It's just like Atlantic City, it's just so short.

"But it's a lot of fun just to be here. You go out there and try to show your best stuff. I know some scouts were in the stands. You never know. I didn't throw that bad."

Camden designated hitter Dan Held (0-for-3, with a strikeout) and Maness (1-for-3, with two strikeouts) both started. Camden closer Jimmy Williams walked one and coaxed a fly ball to right and a groundout.