NEWARK - Thirteen days ago, the Newark Bears played their final game of the first half of the Atlantic League season with the division on the line. Newark’s ace Pat Stanley was on the mound and the offense had been rolling. Stanley gave up all the runs in a 6-1 loss and ever since that day, the Bears have been in a tailspin. Fast forward to Saturday night and it was quite a different story. Mike Bumstead took the mound as the last Newark Bears pitcher to record a win and played the role of the stopper once again. Bumstead went the distance in the Bears 12-3 win over the Camden Riversharks. The game did not begin well for Bumstead or the Bears. Nick Jackson led off the game with a solo home run for Camden and Sheldon Fulse added another one in the top of the third to give the Riversharks a 2-0 lead.

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BRIDGEWATER, NJ — Dave LaPoint wasn’t sparing any of his own players for the late stages of the Atlantic League’s 11th All-Star game last night. The Ducks manager, selected to skipper the Liberty Division squad, tabbed Randy Leek as the starter and brought in Joe Valentine to relieve him in the third inning. Ray Navarrete started at second and Jamie Pogue got the nod at catcher, though the pair of Ducks pitchers were each tagged for two runs as the Sparky Lyle-lead Freedom Division held on for an 8-6 victory in front an All-Star record crowd of 8,290 at Commerce Bank Ballpark. Leek allowed a leadoff single to Lancaster’s Michael Woods before Newark’s Ramon Castro drilled an opposite-field homer to rightfield. Castro’s blast was the first of his pair of two-run home runs, earning the Bears’ shortstop the game MVP for the Freedom Division.

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