GRAND JUNCTION, Col. -- Agnel Miranda admitted he was "a little nervous" with the way Monday's game at the Juco World series unfolded. 

Shelton State came out swinging against the Wabash Valley starting pitcher, drilling a pair of two-run home runs in the first inning for a quick 4-0 lead that would grow to 5-0 after three. 

However, Miranda settled in, the Warrior offense began to churn, and gradually a different game emerged. As it turned out, they had the Bucs just where they wanted them. 

For the second straight game, WVC rallied to a win, the 6-5 verdict achieved by the seventh inning as the bullpen held Shelton at bay. The Warriors are now one of only three unbeatens left in the original 10-team World Series field. 

Now 2-0 in the tourney, they have led for a grand total of three half-innings, and one pitch, of the 18 innings played thus far. 

"That's the way we've been all year," said WVC coach Aaron Biddle. "We dig ourselves holes, and we don't roll over. We keep fighting, and we don't give up. Whatever it takes to find a way to win, it seems like these guys just keep doing it." 

Miranda ended up working an impressive 6 1/3 innings. He gave up five runs on eight hits but walked only one batter and struck out seven. He was not around to get the win – Brock Lucas got that with two innings of scoreless relief. But, minus the start, the 6-foot-5 sophomore righthander from Puerto Rico kept things quiet until the cavalry finally arrived. 

Wabash Valley (55-11) broke through in the fourth inning, with RBIs from Mack Mitchell, Dalton Fiveash, and Keaton Mahan that sliced the deficit to 5-3. 

Then, in the seventh, Luke Odden and Richard Bonomolo Jr. led off with walks. Nick Williams chased Odden home with a double off the wall in the left-field corner. Bruce Jellison followed with an RBI single to right to tie the game at 5-5. 

The Warriors lead the country in sacrifice flies. No. 44 of the season was then the game-winner, a flyball to center from Mitchell that made it 6-5. 

Williams said it was important for his club to "stay the course." 

"It seemed like everything wasn't going our way," he said. "We just had to reassure ourselves and stay committed to our plan to trust our eyes and trust our hands. I am proud of our guys. We rose to the occasion and got it done." 

The come-from-behind victory was not without its' hiccups. In the fifth, after getting Bonomolo and Williams on with hits, the Warriors sputtered, with Shelton ending the threat with a double play to preserve its' two-run lead. 

That setback did not seem to faze the Warriors at all. 

"I tell them all the time, 'something bad is going to happen and how are you going to respond,'" Biddle said. "These guys keep responding." 

Williams finished 4-for-4 at the plate and is now a .750 World Series hitter after two games. Jellison and Fiveash both had two hits. 

Mitchell led the team with two RBIs. 

Lucas, now 2-0 with the win, fanned three and walked one. Sam Mettert came on in the ninth to record the final two outs. 

There were 4,719 in attendance for the game. 

Shelton State (32-29), the No. 8 seed who knocked off second-seeded Johnson County, Kansas 6-5 on Saturday, the opening day of the tournament, returns on Tuesday at 10:00 a.m. CDT in an elimination game against Gaston, N.C. 

Wabash Valley is also on the Tuesday card at Sam Suplizio Field, in a battle of unbeatens against Blinn, Texas (45-13) at 8:00 p.m. CDT. The Buccaneers beat Gaston, 9-3 in their first game.