There are a lot of players in high school baseball playing both games of a doubleheader.

Not many can bounce back from pitching a complete game in the opener and catch all seven innings of the nightcap.

Jefferson's Colten Jourdan is one such player.

Jourdan scattered six hits and struck out seven in the first game of Monday's twinbill against Waterloo West at Jefferson. The J-Hawks won, 8-1. He caught the nightcap and had a squeeze bunt that plated the go-ahead run in the nightcap and the J-Hawks won, 9-4.

Jefferson (12-15, 10-8 MVC) has won seven of its last nine games.The J-Hawks banged out 19 hits in the two games.

Jourdan has become Jefferson's top pitcher. He did not allow an earned run against the Wahawks, lowering his ERA from 1.75 to 1.40.

He also has a howitzer behind the plate and is not afraid to show it off. The latter is the reason he will attend Iowa Central Community College as a recruited walk-on.

"I love baseball and I always want to be out there," said Jourdan, who was a part-time catcher and pitcher a year ago for the J-Hawks. "I have a lot of energy. I think that's why I can do both."

He also has the proverbial rubber arm.

"His arm bounces back pretty well," Jefferson Coach Mike Kuba said. "He's done a nice job of conditioning his arm."

Jourdan is the J-Hawks' regular catcher when he is not pitching, although sophomore Ben Koering has been used to spell him at times. Jourdan said weight lifting, in particular squats, is a key part of his regimen to keep himself able to play on a nearly daily basis.

"I can catch two games with ease and not feel tired at all," he said. "I don't have to ice and I still have a little pop in my step.

"My arm always has been able to bounce back quick. I think it's because I still throw like a catcher when I'm on the mound. But I lengthen things out as a pitcher."

Kuba likes being able to pencil Jourdan into the lineup for every game.

"When it's his turn to pitch, he's going to pitch the first game," Kuba said. "When he's catching and teams have runners on first and third, they're not stealing and that's because he's gained the respect of the coaches in the league. That's something he has earned."

Jefferson also got outstanding pitching from Chance Tiedtke against West (6-21, 3-15). He allowed only six hits and one earned run.

"Our pitching took us deep," Kuba said. "And our defense turned a couple of nice double plays. Then we got some key hits, which we didn't get the other night (in a pair of losses to Xavier)."

Jefferson scored two runs in the first inning of the opener, tacked on four more in the third and two more in the fifth. Sam Techau swatted a two-run homer, Dylan Jellison was 3-for-3, Tiedtke had two hits and two RBIs, and Austin Goodell had two hits and an RBI.

Jefferson jumped on West for four runs in the first inning of the nightcap. Tiedtke had a two-run double and Layne Sullivan a sacrifice fly.

West pushed across two runs in the second and single runs in the third and fourth to tie the game.

Goodell led off the Jefferson fifth with a double and Sullivan reached on a flare single to center. Sullivan went to second on a wild pitch.

Jourdan was at-bat when Kuba flashed the squeeze sign. Jourdan pushed a bunt in front of the plate and Goodell beat the pitcher's scoop toss home. Sullivan scored on a wild pitch before Jordan Dee lined a two-out, two-run single for an 8-4 lead.

"That was a big hit by Dee," Kuba said. "We had guys stepping up in key situations and executing."

Dee was 3-for-3 with two RBIs. Christian Knox had two hits.

Jefferson hosts Dubuque Senior in a doubleheader Wednesday at 5 p.m.

GAME ONE

WATERLOO WEST (1)
Alex Brown, cf, 4 0 2 0, Sam Kullen, rf, 3 1 1 0, Zack Fricke, c, 1 0 0 0, Jamie Medina, cr, 0 0 0 0, Taylor Payne, ph, 1 0 0 0, Matt Ohrt, 1b, 3 0 1 0, Jeff Jenkins, p, 3 0 1 0, Elijah Evans, 3b, 4 0 0 0, Michael Price, lf, 3 0 0 0, Donald Ticknor, 2b, 1 0 0 0, Alec McClain, ss, 3 0 1 0. Totals 26 1 6 0.

JEFFERSON (8)
Dylan Jellison, 2b, 3 2 3 0, Aaron Gruwell, ph, 0 0 0 0, Christian Knox, cf, 2 0 0 0, Austin Weidenhamer, ph, 0 0 0 0, Jordan Dee, 1b, 2 1 0 0, Colton Spicer, ph, 1 0 0 0, Chance Tiedtke, lf, 3 1 2 2, Dylan Wright, ph, 1 0 0 0, Austin Goodell, rf, 3 1 2 1, Hunter Kloubec, ph, 1 0 0 0, Layne Sullivan, dh, 2 1 0 0, Ben Koering, c, 0 0 0 0, Colten Jourdan, p, 2 0 1 1, Gruwell, cr, 0 1 0 0, Sam Techau, 3b, 3 1 1 2, Ky Kramer, ss, 3 0 0 0. Totals 26 8 9 6.

Waterloo West   000 000 1 -- 1  6  3
Jefferson           204 020 x --  8  9  1

Jenkins and Fricke. Jourdan and Koering. W - Koering. L - Jenkins. 2B - Jenkins, Goodell. HR - Techau. SB - Ohrt, Knox.

GAME TWO

WATERLOO WEST (4)
Brown, cf, 3 0 0 0, Kullen, p-rf, 4 1 1 0, Fricke, c-p, 3 0 2 0, Medina, cr, 0 0 0 0, Ohrt, 1b, 3 0 0 0, Jenkins, 3b-c, 3 0 0 0, Evans, lf-3b, 3 1 0 0, Price, rf-lf, 2 2 1 0, Ticknor, 2b, 1 0 0 0, McClain, ss, 3 0 2 2. Totals 25 4 6 2.

JEFFERSON (9)
Jellison, 2b, 2 2 1 0, Knox, cf, 4 1 2 0, Dee, 1b, 3 1 3 2, Tiedtke, p, 4 0 1 2, Gruwell, cr, 0 1 0 0, Goodell, rf, 4 1 1 0, Sullivan, lf, 2 2 1 1, Jourdan, c, 2 0 0 1, Wright, cr, 0 0 0 0, Techau, 3b, 2 0 0 0, Kramer, ss, 4 1 1 0. Totals 27 9 10 6.

Waterloo West   021 100 0 --  4   6  2
Jefferson           400 041 x --  9  10  3

Kullen, Fricke (6) and Fricke, Jenkins (6). Tiedtke and Jourdan. W - Tiedtke. L - Kullen. 2B - McClain, Tiedtke, Goodell. SB - Medina, Knox, Sullivan, Techau.