Virginia Tech got a 12th-inning RBI single from Sheldon Adams to claim a 6-5 win over High Point on a cold Sunday afternoon at Erath Field.

The Hokies outlasted the Panthers in extra innings for the second-straight day and won their fifth in a row to improve to 5-1 on the year. HPU dips to 5-7.

Bobby West (1-0) tossed three scoreless innings of relief for the Hokies, while Matt Kniginyzky (1-3) took the loss for the Panthers despite allowing just one run in 4 2/3 innings out of the bullpen.

Josh Doane, Chris Ramirez, Josh Cotten and Randy Schwartz each collected a pair of hits for the Panthers, who out-hit the Hokies by a 10-8 count.

Both teams opened the scoring in the fourth inning. Jose Rojas hit his first home run of the season, a solo shot to left to give Tech a 1-0 lead, but the Panthers tied things up in the bottom of the frame when Jeremy Neyra walked, advanced to third on a double by Cotten and scored on a Ro Castro RBI groundout.

The Hokies took a 3-1 edge on a two-out, two-run single in the top of the sixth by Billy Marn before the Panthers cut the lead in half with a Dustin Holtzman double which plated Schwartz to cut the deficit to 3-2.

High Point pushed across three runs in the bottom of the seventh off Tech reliever Greg Fryman to surge in front, 5-3. Matt Christie drew a one-out walk and Doane was hit by a pitch before Ramirez drove home Christie with his second double of the game to tie things up. After Randy Buffington relieved Fryman, Neyra greeted him with a two-run single which plated Ramirez and Doane.

Tech pulled even in the top of the eighth with a pair of unearned runs off HPU reliever Mark Shorey. Chris Stanton led off the inning by reaching on a fielding error by the HPU shortstop and scored on a double by Bryan Thomas. A sacrifice fly later in the inning by pinch-hitter Matt Foley scored Jonathan Howlett to tie things up at 5-5.

Cotten nearly ended the game with a deep drive to left in the bottom of the ninth, but Marn was there to make the catch at the warning track for the Hokies and the teams went to extra innings for the second time in as many days.

Kniginyzky gave up a lead-off double to Stanton in the top of the 10th, but got Jose Cueto to ground out, fanned Howlett and coaxed a grounder from David Londrey to end the threat.

High Point got a one-out single from Doane in the bottom of the 11th, but West got Ramirez to hit into a double play to thwart the rally.

Tech's Tom Blaszak walked to lead off the top of the 12th and moved to second on a sacrifice bunt by Stanton. Blaszak just got under the tag of Christie at third on a Cueto grounder, and Adams drove him in with a pinch-hit single to center.

West retired the Panthers in order in the bottom of the frame to seal the win.

High Point starter Rob Bland struck out six and allowed three runs in 5 2/3 innings.

Both teams return to action Wednesday at 2:30 pm. The Panthers make the short cross-Triad trip to play Wake Forest at Hooks Stadium in Winston-Salem, while the Hokies travel to in-state rival James Madison.