Pittsfield infielders Alex Aguila, left, or Sean McLeod can't corral the throw despite going airborn as Nashua's Connor Hujsak steals second duirng Thursday night's game at Holman Stadium. (Telegraph photo by TOM KING)

NASHUA – High school cheering sections, if they’re team was winning, would do it all the time.

“Scorrrrrreboard!” fans would chant.

Well, Nashua Silver Knights manager Kyle Jackson didn’t exactly sound like that after Thursday night’s game before a Holman Stadium crowd of 891 but he did tell his team to look up at the stadium board that showed an 8-2 loss to the Pittsfield Suns in which the Knights got outhit 12-7 and committed five errors.

“All I told them after was look at the scoreboard, that showed you where you messed up, and BP is at 2:45 (today),” Jackson said.

It was probably his shortest postgame on field speech to his players since the season started, as they slipped to 5-13, now having lost five straight. They haven’t won since they edged the Westfield Starfires in a doubleheader split a week ago tonight.

The board said Nashua had seven hits, but none were of an overwhelming nature, not like Jack Cooney’s solo shot to left center in the sixth that put the Suns up 5-1, or Alex Aguila’s fist pumping double just fair inside the line in left field, driving in two to make it 7-2.

In fact, neither of Nashua’s runs were by an RBI. Jackson Linn scored on a balk in the second and Connor Hujsak came home on a passed ball in the eighth after singling, stealing second, and going to third on a throwing error on the play.

“At one point we had more errors (five) than hits (four),” Jackson said. “That’s not going to win many ballgames.”

Offense has been a problem all month long, but now the Knights are struggling on the mound and in the field.

“The kids have to – I had a talk with them yesterday and told them they have to ask themselves ‘What can I do to help the team,'” an obviously frustrated Jackson said. “I don’t know. I sit here as a manager, you’re in a losing streak, you can see it in the kids faces trying to press or do too much, or don’t want to fail, or try to make something that doesn’t need to be happening.

“I still try to keep it relaxed, but they understand. … something’s got to change.”

One of the things Jackson told his pitchers was that if they don’t throw strikes, he can’t use them. At least they only walked three last night. Starter Tommy Kalantzakos, however, gave up four runs (two earned) on eight hits in 4.1 innings.

But they also have no margin for error. Nashua had a chance for some momentum when Nick Perkins reached on a swinging bunt and Nate Goranson was hit by a pitch to make it first and second, no one out.

But Suns hurler Tim Cianciolo got both Logan Ott and Jackson Linn swinging at high fastballs out of the zone, and Hujsak hit a hard groundout to third.

“That’s called pressing,” Jackson said, noting the Knights just don’t make contact as they struck out 12 times last night. “Even when there’s a man at second, no one will go the other way, there’s no contact. As a coach, that’s frustrating.”

Nashua will send Wyatt Scotti to the hill tonight vs. Vermont at Holman, and then the team has a home-and-home with Norwich Saturday (road) and Sunday (Holman, 3 p.m.).

“It’s only going to take one win,” Jackson said, “and probably going to take one starter to go out there and dominate. That’s my opinion. If I’m the starter, I want the ball and I want to go out there and put up zeros.”

That way Jackson can point to left field and maybe actually say “Scorrrrrreboard.”