PITTSBURGH, Pa. - The Clemson Softball program hit a program-record five home runs, including three in the third inning to power the Tigers to a 13-2 run-rule victory in five innings against the Pittsburgh Panthers (21-19, 7-10 ACC). Jamison Brockenbrough, Kylee Johnson, Macey Cintron, Sarah Breaux and Taylor Pipkins all notched homers in the win to move Clemson to 26-16 (8-9 ACC) play.
The Tigers strung together 12 hits with all nine starters hitting at least one. The quintet of Tigers that hit homers marked the most in a single game in Clemson’s seven years. Cintron, Breaux and Pipkins hit their home runs in the fourth inning to mark the seventh time in program history Clemson has hit three homers in a single frame. Sophomore Corri Hicks was a home run shy of hitting for the cycle after she recorded a single, double and triple with one RBI and two runs scored. Brockenbrough and Breaux rounded out the Tigers with multiple runs scored, and Johnson, Cintron and Breaux each finished with at least two RBIs.
Brockenbrough started the game with a bang by sending the fifth pitch of the game down the right-field line and out of the park for a solo home run and her fifth of the season. In the bottom half of the first, Pitt manufactured a run after a double, wild pitch and ground out brought a runner home.
The Tigers answered quickly by loading the bases in the top of the second with back-to-back singles and a walk to bring Johnson to the plate. She drove the third pitch of her at bat 258 feet at 80 miles per hour for a grand slam. The Panthers made a pitching change, and with one out, Brockenbrough walked, and Kiley Channell moved her around to third with a single to put runners on the corners. In the next at bat, Channell stole second, and Brockenbrough came home on a throwing error as the ball ended up in center field.
Pitt cut into Clemson’s advantage with a solo homer to open the bottom of the second, but Cintron notched two strikeouts and catcher Corri Hicks caught a runner attempting to steal to end the inning. Through two, the Tigers held a 6-2 lead.
After a quiet third inning from both sides, Clemson put up a crooked inning with seven runs, including three homers. It opened with Channell getting hit by a pitch and advancing to second on a wild pitch. Mac Pavese brought her home with a single up the middle, and Cintron followed with a homer to left field. After a Pitt pitching change, Marian Collins singled and Hicks doubled to score pinch runner Kennedy Ariail.
The scoring continued in the fourth with a two-run shot by Breaux after Hicks’ double, and Pipkins rounded out the inning with a solo shot to left for her fourth-straight game with a homer, all of which were solo home runs. The Tigers turned a double play in the bottom of the fourth and another in the bottom of the fifth to cap the 13-2 run-rule.
Cintron got her first start of 2026 in the circle and pitched the complete five-inning contest. She faced 18 batters and picked up three strikeouts in her first win of the year.
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Clemson concludes the weekend at Pitt on Sunday, April 12 at 1 p.m. on ACCNX.