By MICHAEL RADANO
Courier-Post Staff
CAMDEN

Someone had better check the water at Campbell's Field. If it's not the water, then something is wrong with the ventilation at the newest structure on the Camden Waterfront. Either way, something strange was going on Friday night.

Oh, and by the way, the Camden Riversharks won their Atlantic League baseball game.

The Sharks (3-10 second half, 27-49 overall), who have struggled in the second half, beat the Newark Bears 10-3 in front of 5,921 fans at Campbell's Field.

On a night when a kite flown from the parking lot hovered over the field for two innings and the teams combined for five errors, two passed balls, two wild pitches, and 24 strikeouts, the Sharks picked up an important win.

For a team that has struggled with consistency all season, a win's a win and that's all that matters.

"It was nice to see the game finally go our way," Riversharks manager Wayne Krenchicki said. "We executed well with the sacrifice bunting. We did little things that turned into big things.

"(The crowd) was pretty much into it the whole game. It was real nice to give them something positive because, even at our worst, they've been behind us."

With the score tied at 3 and one out in the seventh inning, Camden's Dan Held singled through the right side. Jacob Brumfield followed suit, and Held reached third. Then things got weird.

Brumfield, who had homered in the second to give the Sharks a 3-2 lead, broke for second and had the base successfully stolen. Newark's Peto Ramirez's throw, however, bounced on the infield grass and past shortstop Jose Alguacil and into center field. That allowed Held to easily score the go-ahead run.

In a season of bad breaks, maybe, just maybe, things are starting to go the Sharks' way.

"That's what's been happening to us," said Brumfield, who went 2-for-3 with two runs scored. "It's amazing. If you look at our team, you wouldn't think we were playing as bad as we have. Maybe this will get things going our way.

"I saw the kite. You know what that means - we'll start having kite nights. If we win that's fine with me."

The eighth was no less strange, so bear with us.

The Sharks scored six runs - their third highest total for a single inning this season - with the help of four hits, two errors and two wild pitches.

The biggest hit of the inning was a two-run, bases- loaded single to right by Guillermo Garcia. The right- handed catcher is a pull hitter, but with two strikes he slapped a ball into right that scored Andres Duncan and Brad Strauss, who ran through Krenchicki's stop sign, to make the score 6-3.

"I just adjusted a little bit," said Garcia. "I was just trying to make good contact. I wanted to put the ball in play and make good contact. I got it through and got two RBI."