CAMDEN -- The black hole that is the bottom of the Camden Riversharks offense continued to work its magic Tuesday night.

Just how long the disappearing act that rivals the best work of David Copperfield remains intact is a question for the ages.

The Sharks lost for the ninth time in their last 10 games as Nashua posted an 8-5 win in front of 3,443 faithful at Campbell's Field. The loss came on the heels of a 17-5 win the previous night. The Sharks had their chances but as has happened all too often in this lost season, the Sharks offense lacked the consistency to pick up a much-needed win.

In the eighth, the Sharks (9-20 half, 33-59 overall) saw a rally quickly go wrong in an all too familiar spot in the lineup.

Down 6-2, Jesus Azuaje, whose home run in the sixth set the score for the eighth, reached on catcher's interference, when it appeared he had grounded out to second. The Sharks took advantage of the break as Darrell Nicholas was then hit, to make it first and second. For the second consecutive night Guillermo Garcia hit a tape measure shot to left in the direction of the Ben Franklin Bridge abutment.

With the score 6-5, Dan Held singled into right and the Sharks had a rally brewing.

Unfortunately, the next three hitters, Dwight Maness, Jacob Brumfield and Kim Batiste have struggled for most of the year, especially over the last three weeks.

Maness attempted two sacrifice bunts but a called strike and a foul left him in the hole and he promptly struck out for the fourth time on the night. Held was then caught stealing in an attempt to get the rally re-ignited and Brumfield struck out for the second time on the evening.

In all, the final four hitters in the lineup went 0-for-16 with 11 strikeouts and only Brumfield was able to get the ball out of the infield on a pair of flyouts. John Dorman started in the nine hole and went 0-for-3 with three strikeouts before he was tossed arguing balls and strikes. His replacement Andres Duncan struck out in his only at bat. In comparison, the rest of the lineup went 8-for-17 and struck out twice.

``I didn't even know those figures,'' Krenchicki said. ``(The media) always comes up with those numbers. Again, we did score some runs. I was happy to see us score late in the game against a real tough reliever (Kerry Lacy). Maybe one of the better set up guys in the league. If we could get a sacrifice down or one more key hit we may get the lead.''

Nashua (16-12, 47-45) got all six runs off starter Jeff Love (4-4). Love's night was nothing if not inconsistent. Despite two perfect innings, all six runs were earned over the other 3˜ as he allowed 10 hits.

``Jeff was up in the zone all night but to be fair I think the umpires gave them a couple of extra outs,'' Krenchicki said. ``But they blew calls for both teams and I don't want to point to the umpires as a reason we lost today. But if you look at it, four of the runs came in innings we gave them four outs.''