Baker and Ottawa Universities are setting aside their rivalry in a joint effort to restock community food pantries.

Baker Serves is teaming up with Ottawa University’s community service club, Get Off the Couch and Help Another (GOTCHA), to host the second annual Tackling Hunger Together Food Drive.

Each university will collect as many canned goods as possible. The winner of the competition will be announced Saturday during the Victory Sports Network First Down Classic football game between Baker and Ottawa.

All items donated will go directly to the Baldwin City food pantry and OU’s canned goods will go to a food pantry in Ottawa.

There are donation boxes in each of the residence halls, as well as in Harter Union Lobby, so students can easily donate items.

Food pantries are always in need of staple items.

“Peanut butter and toiletry items are good,” Baker Serves President Lauren Williams said. “Those staple items that families always need normally go quickly.”

Last year, Ottawa donated almost twice as many canned goods as BU, so Baker Serves members are hoping to retaliate against Ottawa and donate the most items.

“We really want to beat them this year on their turf since they beat us last year on our turf,” Williams said.

Baker Serves will collect all of the donated items in the boxes today at 4 p.m.

If students are unable to make the 4 p.m. deadline, they can bring items to the second floor of Harter Union before Saturday’s game, which is scheduled to start at 6 p.m.

There will also be a table set up next to the visitor’s entrance of Peoples Bank Field during the football game in Ottawa, where Baker Serves will have members available to accept students’ canned food items.