Although Penn State won on the field at Saturday's football game, Michigan State was victorious on the donor beds.

After two weeks of donations, Michigan State won the 11th annual Penn State-Michigan State Blood Donor Challenge with a final score of 1,785 to 1,750 units of blood.

In the history of the blood donor challenge, Penn State has won seven times, and Michigan State has won four.

Wendi Keeler, Red Cross spokeswoman, said the blood collected by both schools throughout the challenge might save about 10,600 lives.

Justin Looyenga, Michigan State donor recruitment representative, said Michigan State tends to collect blood evenly throughout the entire challenge, while Penn State collects 800 of the targeted 2,000 pints during the last three days of the challenge.

However, Penn State collects vast amounts of blood toward the end of the drive by choice, Student Red Cross Club President Jen Malloy (senior-biobehavioral health), said. "It works to have our big [drives] at the end," she said. "We have the capacity to hold bigger drives at the HUB."

This year, instead of having three days of drives at the HUB-Robeson Center, the last day's drive was moved from HUB Alumni Hall to the Intramural Building, Alpha Epsilon Delta Blood Cup chair Bruno Casile said. He added that the change in collection site might have contributed to Penn State's loss.

Keeler said that on Wednesday night, HUB event management told her the room was unavailable, and the Student Red Cross Club was not scheduled to be in the room. "I don't even know what happened," Keeler said. "We thought we were in the HUB. We thought we had a room confirmed."

The new collection site at the IM Building was authorized shortly after the club learned it could not be at the HUB, and two Red Cross vans were converted to shuttle the donors who were unaware of the move, she said.

Casile said the room change was unfortunate because Thursday's HUB drive was supposed to be the biggest of the year. "No excuses, but we could have fit more people and beds into the HUB," he said. "There would have been less deferrals and less of a line."

Keeler said about 100 people were deferred on the last day of the drive because of time restraints.

Malloy said another possible reason for the loss was the lack of trained medical personnel.

"Getting enough staffers is hard," she said, adding that about 1,000 volunteers helped throughout the challenge.

The winners of the Blood Cup, a separate competition between Penn State student groups for the highest percentage of active member donations, were also announced during halftime of the football game. Of the more than 90 participating clubs, service fraternity Alpha Phi Omega took home first in the large group category in the Blood Cup competition. Pollock Halls Residence Association won the small group category, and hunting-interest fraternity Tau Phi Delta placed first in the greek category.

Casile said the Blood Cup provides an extra incentive for students to donate blood and participate in the challenge.

"People are more apt [to donate] to help their club and to say we have the best fraternity, sorority or club," he said.

Win or lose, both schools agreed it's more than a competition. "The only scoreboard that counts is the scoreboard that evaluates how you help people," Michigan State spokesman Terry Denbow said.