DELPHOS — Thursday’s Jefferson home baseball game with Allen East was the Josh Miller and Ryan Kortokrax show.

Both had a pair of hits: a double and a 3-run round-tripper; to pace the Wildcats to an 11-1 Northwest Conference rout in six innings on a gorgeous afternoon for baseball at Wildcat Field.

Oh, by the way: Miller — who had five RBIs and scored three times — also tossed a complete-game 3 hitter (1 earned run), fanning 11 Mustangs and walking two in a 92-pitch (62 for strikes) effort.

“Josh was outstanding today. He was hitting his spots with two pitches; when you can have command of two pitches like that, you are going to be tough to beat,” Jefferson coach Troy Montenery began. “His curve was keeping them off-balance today. That follows a great performance by Mike (Rahrig) the night before. They are our two senior pitchers and they are pitching like it. They are pitching like we expect them to.”

Allen East had first crack at getting on board, getting Shawn Anderson to third with a 1-out double and a 2-out stolen base but he was left stranded.

“Miller was the best pitcher we have faced all year. He threw curves with full counts; you don’t see that a lot in high school ball,” Allen East coach Bill Yetman said. “I think we had a bit of stage fright to begin with and we didn’t get many hits against him; we didn’t hit too many balls hard. We fell behind in the count and our kids got flustered.”

The Wildcats put a 4 spot up in the home half of that frame against Allen East (7-4, 1-2 NWC) starter Craig Patterson (2-2; 5 innings, 5 hits, 7 runs, 4 earned, 4 walks, 6 strikeouts). Cory Bastian (2-for-3) blooped a hit to right and Sean Fisher (3 bases-on-balls) got a free pass. Both came plateward via a double to the fence in left-center by Miller. Kortokrax — who knocked in four runs and scored twice — followed with a run-scoring 2-base hit to center. Aaron Schuerman got aboard via an error on his grounder, allowing Kortokrax to score for that 4-0 spread. Patterson settled down to get out of the inning with no more damage.

Nick Searfoss got to second via a 2-out walk and a stolen base in the Allen East second but was left there.

Bastian lined a single to left with two down in the home half but was cut down trying to steal by catcher Aaron Swaney.

Andrew Rettig walked to lead off the visitor third and was bunted up a base by Jordan Kruger. However, Rettig was gunned down trying to pilfer third by Kortokrax and Miller fanned the next batter.

Kortokrax worked a 2-out walk in the bottom half but Schuerman’s rope to right field was caught by Rettig.

Allen East sliced the deficit to 4-1. Swaney blooped a hit to right and stole second on a strikeout of Larry Jackson. An out later, Levi Hoy launched a shot to the left-center gap: leftfielder Bastian tried for a diving catch but couldn’t quite come up with it for a run-scoring double. Miller fanned Searfoss to end Allen East’s last stand as they were sent down in order in the next two innings.

The Wildcats (8-2, 3-0 NWC) were not done. In the fifth, they got it started with two down. Fisher walked and Miller got aboard via an error. Kortokrax then went yard, hitting a 3-run blast to the right of the 362-foot sign in left field for a 7-1 lead.

The Red and White finished it off in the sixth against Allen East relief pitcher Swaney. Pinch-hitter Mike Rahrig (first baseman) got aboard via a throwing error. He got to third on an errant pickoff throw. An out later, he scored courtesy of a pinch-hit single to right by Austin Clarkson. A pop-up out later, Clarkson moved to second thanks to a throwing error on the play. Fisher got aboard on another free pass. Miller ended it abruptly as he tomahawked a high pitch to the same spot as Kortokrax’s round-tripper earlier for a 3-run homer.

“We started off hitting the ball well today. Then, in the next couple of innings, we fell into a lull; we got into some bad habits and didn’t have quality at-bats,” Montenery added. “We were hitting fly balls or striking out. We got back into a groove in the fifth. We kept battling. One good thing is that we scored six runs with two outs; that’s another sign we kept battling. The second is we got good production off the bench. We had four straight pinch-=hitters in the sixth and they all had quality at-bats. It’s such a luxury to have that kind of depth off the bench.”

Allen East returns to action tonight with a home contest versus Parkway.

“We had more than our share of errors. I preached to the kids on the bus on the way over about that,” Yetman added. “You cannot give a team like Jefferson — the way they can and have been hitting the ball — extra outs and we did that.”

Jefferson will make up a postponed game at Lincolnview at 1 p.m. Saturday.