The Tigers scored eight unanswered runs in the sixth inning to win 10-9 and advance to the championship. Then came Johnson's title-game heroics, which finally gifted Clemson ACC tournament glory.

The left fielder crushed a two-out, three-run home run to break the fourth-inning tie between No. 11 overall seed Clemson softball and No. 4 seed USC Upstate. When the Tigers (45-12) returned to ...