By MATT PIKE
One of the top pitchers for the St. Joseph Central Indians baseball team has made his decision on his future after high school.
Central senior pitcher Cole Hass signed his national letter of intent today to continue his baseball career at Missouri Southern. In his junior season, Hass threw 36.2 innings for the Indians across seven starts, striking out 57 and giving up just 18 earned runs for a 3.40 ERA.
Hass says Southern provided almost everything he was looking for when going to the next level.
"Southern offered a great campus, a great kinesiology program which I'm trying to study, and their coaches, their staff, is really perfect for what I'm looking for," Hass tells reporters.
Hass brings an interesting pitching style to the Southern staff, after he completes his senior season. While his arm motion isn't quite that of a submarine style pitcher, he does attack hitters with more of a side arm angle, something Southern liked about him as a pitcher.
"They said i was a funky pitcher, I mean thats what they all say," Hass says. "They said they like how fast I throw, they want to bring in more of an offspeed pitch, but thats something I'm looking to develop in college."
Along with his time at Central, Hass has spent time training at the Marek Baseball Academy. Over the summer, Hass was lights out, pitching 31 innings with a perfect 7-0 Record, striking out 45 batters while walking eight, and giving up just three earned runs for a 0.67 ERA.
Hass says training at Marek has helped him in becoming the pitcher he is, with the amount of work he puts in at the academy each week.
"I'm at Marek six nights a week, I work with Truman Marek everyday," Hass explains. "So we work hard and gain velo every day."
Hass will begin his senior season with Central this spring as the Indians will look to improve on a 14-12 record from last season, where they were eliminated in the first round of district play.
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