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Sophomore Amy Tompkins hit her first career homerun in the Hornets’ evening game Saturday to help her team annihilate Miami (Ohio) University 16-1 via the eight-run mercy rule.

“I don’t really swing for the fence,” The 5-foot-3 shorstop Tompkins said of the second-inning blast that cleared the fence in left field with little room to spare. “Every now and again I get a hold of one. – They’re few and far between but it feels good.”

Tompkins said the only other homerun she hit came in the Central Coast Section title game while she was a senior at Notre Dame High in Salinas.

Cinque was solid in the circle for the Hornets as she pitched a complete game allowing six hits and no walks.

Sac State did the bulk of its damage in the fourth inning, striking for 13 runs while batting around twice. In all, 20 hitters came to the plate, Miami made three pitching changes and all but two Hornets were replaced as only Cinque and Toledo remained in the game for all five innings. 12 different Hornets had RBIs in the game as Sac State logged 16 hits.

“It’s a hard situation,” Strahan said. “I kept thinking, ‘We’ll get out of it, we’ll get out of it, we’ll get out of it.’ – but the players I put in wanted to do well too.”

“I empathize with them because we were in that situation in San Diego against UCLA,” added Strahan about her team’s 22-3 loss to the Bruins at a tournament earlier in the year.

Sac State (14-10) will play at 11 a.m. on Sunday facing Utah State to complete the 14th annual Capital Classic. The Hornets return to campus at 1 p.m. on Wednesday for a doubleheader with Princeton at Shea Stadium.

Short hops: Cinque now has nine RBIs and two homeruns in her last three games – Winkler now has a 15 game hit streak and combined to go 5-for-8 with three runs and an RBI on Saturday – Teri Ann Caoagan combined to go 3-for-6 on Saturday – Cervantes has struck out 51 batters in her last three games – Schloredt was 2-for-2 with an RBI and run against Miami.