GROVE CITY — Corry will be a challenge.

After all, the Beavers are one of the few football teams to force Grove City High to punt this season.

The teams meet in the District 10 Class AAA semifinals at 7 p.m. Saturday at Slippery Rock University.

Corry is coming off a 34-31 win over Meadville in double overtime last week. Grove City is coming off a much-needed bye.

The teams also played a regular-season clash Sept. 10, with the Eagles pulling away late in a 27-9 win.

“I'm sure they want another crack at us,” said Grove City coach Jeff Bell. “They probably think, ‘Hey, if a couple of breaks would have gone our way, we could have beaten them.'”

Corry (9-2) has gotten better each week, particularly on offense.

The Beavers have won seven straight after a 2-2 start, and quarterback Matt Cragg and fullback Adam Zimmerman are big reasons why.

Cragg has run the Corry spread-option offense well, rolling up 838 yards rushing and 11 touchdowns.

Zimmerman is a workhorse with 235 carries for 1,302 yards and 13 scores.

“They really compliment each other well,” said Corry coach Homer Delattre. “(Cragg) has really developed. He knows when to hand it off or pull it out.”

Corry has five different starters since the first time it played Grove City.

Both teams have put wrinkles into their offenses and defenses, but Bell said he isn't going to try to reinvent the wheel when facing the Beavers for the second time.

“Good teams don't change much,” Bell said.

The challenge for the Eagles will be finding a way to contain Corry's two big running threats out of a spread formation designed to create space.

Junior linebacker Wes Phipps, who leads the Eagles with 10.3 tackles per game, said the key is to not think too much.

“We just need to go out and execute,” Phipps said. “They are scrappy and they make plays and they run an offense you don't see in high school football very much.

“We'll make our checks and just try to outplay and outhustle them,” he added.

Grove City spent its off week fine tuning.

Bell spent much of the time working on the basics. It was almost like training camp 2.0.

“We went back and worked on a lot of fundamentals, things you really don't have a lot of time to work on during the season when you have to go out and play on a Friday night,” Bell said.

Grove City's offense has been overpowering all season.

The Eagles are averaging 332 yards rushing per game. Six players finished with more than 400 yards rushing, and quarterback Tyler Dagres averaged 23.9 yards per completion.

And Grove City punted just seven times only season.

Corry made the Eagles boot it away twice — a season high.

It's no wonder that Grove City, which has won 15 of its last 16 games, finished the regular season 10-0 for the first time in school history.

The last time an Eagles team finished a regular unbeaten was in 1961. That team went 9-0.

“It's definitely special,” Phipps said. “As a group, the guys just worked really hard for it. We've had better practices throughout the season than I can ever remember. Everyone's buying in that, no, we're not done yet.”