TYLER, Texas – Pleasant Grove’s baseball team has an answer for everything Brownsboro threw at it in Thursday’s 4A playoff series opener at Mike Carter Field.

The Hawks (24-4) never trailed in the first game of Thursday’s doubleheader, beating the Bears, 7-4.

Every time Brownsboro scored, the Hawks would answer in their next at-bat.

Nick Voyles started on the mound for Pleasant Grove. He earned the win, going 4.2 innings. Marshall Oubre came on in the bottom of the fifth to get the final seven outs of the game.

Hawks’ Jackson scores in first against Brownsboro

Pleasant Grove scored quickly in the game after a leadoff triple by Jackson Cobb. He trotted home on Ben Harmon’s single.

Marshall Cox had a two-run single in the third, and plated two more in the seventh with a double off the right field fence. Seth Hopkins also had a run-scoring double in the game.

Keaton Russo, Hopkins and Cox finished with two hits each.

The winner of this series advances to play Kilgore or Wills Point in next week’s quarterfinals.