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ISU softball team comes back for fifth straight win in Florida

Illinois State's softball team rallied to take a 5-4 victory in eight innings over Florida Atlantic for their second victory Sunday to finish 5-1 in the FAU Parents' Weekend Tournament at Boca Raton, Fla.

Earlier, the Redbirds had 18 hits in beating Coastal Carolina, 12-5.

ISU (8-3 overall) scored two runs in the top of the seventh to tie Florida Atlantic and a run in the eighth to earn its fifth straight victory. Mack Leonard and Jayden Standish each had two of ISU's 10 hits. Morgan Day (4-2) threw 2.2 hitless innings and struck out eight to get the win.