Pleasant Grove (27-5) rode the stellar pitching performance of freshman Hunter Rose to a 5-1 win in Marshall on Thursday over Ferris (21-11). Instead of a best-of-three series, the teams played a onegame, do-or-die Class 4A are round playoff at East Texas Baptist University’s Woods Baseball Field.
A quick lead established the pace of the game, and Rose gave a command performance.
The left-hander was…