The Marietta College softball played its first games on the newly-renovated Jeanne Arbuckle Field Saturday against Otterbein. (Photo by Allison Donley)

Marietta College opened Jeanne Arbuckle Field with an Ohio Athletic Conference doubleheader split Saturday afternoon.

The Pioneers hosted Otterbein and the teams each came away with a 5-4 win. The Cardinal took game one and Marietta won the second game.

Marietta moves to 9-5 on the season and 1-1 in the OAC. Otterbein is now 6-6 overall and 1-1 in the OAC. Marietta hosts Carnegie Mellon University on Sunday (Mar. 22) for a 2:00 p.m. nonconference doubleheader.

Becca Streets laced a one-out, walk-off single to the wall in centerfield scoring Liz White with the winning run in the second game. White reached on a one-out single and moved to third on a double off the bat of Allie Sheen. Streets followed with the game-winning hit.

Streets had given the Pioneers a 4-3 lead in the fifth inning with an RBI single to right field. But Otterbein tied the game, 4-4, with an RBI double from Emma Calkins in the sixth.

Aiyana Hancock (1-1) got the win in relief for Marietta. She worked the final 3.0 innings and allowed one run on two hits. Candace Walters started and gave up two runs, one earned, on three hits in 3.1 innings. Emma Cozza was charged with one run on four hits in two-thirds of an inning.

Kaycee Berentz (0-2) took the loss. She allowed one run on three hits in 1.1 innings of work. Kara Mekulsia started and threw 5.0 innings allowing four runs on seven hits.

White and Streets both went 3-for-4 in the game for Marietta. Katie Sweeney smacked the first home run at Arbuckle Field, a solo shot to centerfield in the fourth inning.

Otterbein scored three runs in the top of the sixth to come from behind and defeat the Pioneers, 5-4. Marietta scored twice in the bottom of the first on RBI singles from Adisson Heath and Hancock, but left the bases loaded.

Single runs in the third and fifth innings gave Marietta a 4-3 lead heading into the sixth inning. Rachel Miller led off with a double and Emma Calkins followed with a single, moving Miller to third. Miller scored on a double steal.

An RBI double from Maggie McVicker plated Calkins with the second run of the inning. An infield single from Katie Koulianos knocked in McVicker with the go ahead run.

Addison Yoder (1-3) went the distance in the circle for Otterbein allowing four runs on six hits. She walked five and struck out six in 7.0 innings pitched.

Hancock started for the Pioneers and gave up two unearned runs on two hits in 4.0 innings. Kylie Cobb (1-1) took the loss giving up three runs on five hits in 1.2 innings. Cozza threw 1.1 shutout innings to close the game.

Sweeney was the lone Pioneer with two hits in the game.