This is the final in a series of nine articles profiling the 2012 inductees of the Butler High School Athletic Hall of Fame.BUTLER TWP — Baseball and Eric Hohn simply go together.The 1982 Butler graduate was a left-handed pitcher who threw hard and threw strikes. He put together eight solid years on the mound combined at Butler High School and Penn State University.Now, he’s part of the nine-member 2012 induction class of the Butler High School Athletic Hall of Fame. Hohn and his fellow inductees will be honored at a 5 p.m. reception Friday in the high school cafeteria.They will be honored on the field prior to the Golden Tornado’s home football game with Pine-Richland that night.Friday will mark Hohn’s second Hall of Fame induction in six months. He joined the Butler County Sports Hall of Fame in April.“I never dreamed anything like this would ever happen,” Hohn said. “I’m deeply, deeply honored to be a part of this group.”Hohn was a four-year varsity letterman with the Golden Tornado during a time when there was no freshman or junior varsity team.“I’m grateful to (coach) Don Dombart for giving me the opportunity as a freshman,” he said. “Shaler and New Castle were two of the better baseball programs around back then and I had a chance to pitch against both of them.“Being left-handed definitely helped me. We couldn’t have had more than two left-handers on the team at the time.”Hohn rarely walked anyone and piled up strikeouts with a 90 mph fastball. He threw a curveball and changeup, as well.Hohn compiled a 0.74 earned run average his senior year. He made the all-section team in 1981 and 1982 and was drafted in the 18th round by the Baltimore Orioles in June of his senior year.He turned down professional baseball to accept a full scholarship at Penn State.“It was a no-brainer for me because Penn State guaranteed all four years of the scholarship, even if I got hurt my first year and couldn’t play anymore,” Hohn said. “It was rare to get an offer like that in those days.”He made it worth the Nittany Lions’ while.Hohn lettered all four years at Penn State and fashioned a 2.59 ERA his senior year. He received the team MVP award that season, as well.This time, the St. Louis Cardinals selected him in the 22nd round and Hohn signed.“I didn’t have much bargaining power at that point,” he said.Hohn pitched for the Erie Cardinals of the New York-Penn League in 1986 and for Savannah in the South Atlantic League before rotator cuff issues ended his career.“I pitched maybe 25 innings with Savannah,” he said. “I just couldn’t go anymore. At the end of the year, I got released.”But his baseball career has yet to end.Hohn has spent 13 years coaching baseball in Center Township. His sons — David, 19, Aaron, 16, and Adam, 13 — have all played baseball. David is playing football now at Carnegie Mellon University.“I coached Adam’s team in the North Pittsburgh Federation League this year,” Hohn said. “I’ve been with that group of kids since they were 6.“Seeing your kids grow up and being able to coach them ... it’s more enjoyable than words can describe.”Hohn even serves as an assistant coach on daughter Maggie’s 12-year-old softball team.“I loved playing ball,” he said. “Getting a chance to share the game with my own kids, I love even more.”