Youngstown -- Youngstown State scored 18 runs and pounded out 20 hits in a doubleheader split on the opening day of the season at New Orleans.

Jacke Healey drove in six runs and hit two home runs - one a grand slam - in game one as the Penguins won 11-4. The Penguins scored three runs in the ninth to tie the score in game two, but the Privateers came back with a run in the bottom half to win 8-7.

Healey finished with three hits and five runs scored on the day to go along with his six RBIs. Eric Marzec was 6-for-10 with three doubles and a homer, and Jeremy Banks had four singles as the heart of the Guins' order went a combined 13-for-27 in the doubleheader.

"I was very pleased with our effort in every inning today," head coach Rich Pasquale said. "We had a good approach at the plate, and I really felt like we battled every at bat."

In game one, the Penguins got 6.2 solid innings from starter Aaron Swenson, and Marzec threw 2.1 scoreless innings to earn the save. Marzec struck out five of the 11 batters he faced.

New Orleans drew three full-count walks in the first inning and took a 2-0 lead on Swenson. Those were the only two runs that the right-hander surrendered until two of his inherited runners scored in the seventh.

Freshman Zac McFarland singled in a run in the second to cut the margin to one, and Healey hit an opposite-field solo blast in the third to tie the score. Joe Iacobucci led off the fourth with a triple, and the Penguins went on to score four runs to go ahead 6-2.

Jay Morris hit a two-run double for UNO off of Marzec in the seventh to make the score 6-4, but the YSU closer came back to strike out Nolan Church to end the inning.

The Guins then blew the game open with five runs in the top of the eighth, four of which came on Healey's grand slam to right center.

In game two, YSU rallied twice before Jerad Comarda's RBI double with nobody out in the ninth gave the Privateers their first win of the season.

Marzec gave the Penguins a 1-0 lead in the second with a solo blast, but New Orleans scored twice in the third off Phil Klein to go ahead 2-1.

After New Orleans went up 3-1 with a run in the fourth, the Penguins scored three runs with two outs in the fifth to back on top 4-3. Marzec had a two-run double to plate Banks and Healey, and Jonathan Crist followed with a single up the middle to bring in Marzec.

New Orleans tied the score in the bottom of the frame, and the Privateers scored three times in the seventh to ahead 7-4. The Penguins stranded two runners in the eighth after back-to-back strikeouts, but the broke through for three runs on two hits and an error in the top of the ninth to knot the game at 7-7. Marzec had another RBI double, and Iacobucci's single to center tied the game.

In the bottom of the ninth, Anthony Munoz walked Nick Schwaner to start the inning, and Comarda doubled down the left-field line for the game-winner.

The Penguins and Privateers will battle for the series in the finale on Sunday at 2 p.m. Eastern.