By MONTE DUTTON

Another sign that life is getting back to normal was I ate again at Steamers for the first time since it reopened.
An old-fashioned cheeseburger plate with onion rings. It hit the spot. I’ve been enjoying an approximation of that cheeseburger off and on for about 60 years. It’s not exactly the same, but it’s endured a hell of a lot better than Kentucky Fried Chicken.
The election isn’t over. Life may never get back to normal again.
There wasn’t much I could do about it Friday but eat lunch.

Presbyterian College football. Never count it out. Never count it in.
Steve Englehart’s team is much better than last year, when it was much better than the year before, but it was difficult to prove until last Saturday’s 42-14 explosion over Stetson in DeLand, Fla.
Now Dayton (5-2, 3-1 PFL) flies in. Last year, Presbyterian edged the Flyers in overtime, 20-17.
After losing four straight games, two in overtime, by a total of 27 points, the Blue Hose scored five first-half touchdowns and amassed well over 600 yards of total offense.

Was it an aberration or an emergence? Bailey Memorial Stadium at 1 p.m. on Saturday is the place to find out.
Englehart has been believing his program was clicking. Last week it clicked.
Or, perhaps, it’s more complicated than that.
“Our offensive line and tight ends just did a great job of blocking,” Englehart said. “We did a really good job of creating explosive plays.

“The thing that kind of stuck out to me early on, watching the first two or three series, for lack of a better term, they played pissed off. They played like they like they were motivated not just to win but win soundly.”

Presbyterian (3-6, 1-4) averaged eight yards per play in the Stetson runaway, their second-ever PFL victory as the road team.
Dayton’s defense is stout, yielding an average of just 232 yards a game. Morehead State upset the Flyers, 14-6. The Eagles’ victory over PC was 14-7.

Close games are common for Dayton, which edged Davidson 16-14 and Butler 21-14.
Any defensive similarity between Dayton and Stetson is incidental, Steve Englehart’s Blue Hose scored touchdowns on five straight first-half possessions. The Blue Hose ran early and often, with four different rushers combined for the five scores. PC rushed for 329 yards.

Antonio Wright and Quante Jennings each rushed for 106 yards. Not since 2014 had two reached the century mark in a PC game.
Junior Dominic Kibby hauled in a record 94-yard touchdown pass from Collin Hurst.
Five PC women’s soccer players earned Big South honors.
Sloan Spees, Ella Williams and Gwen Keiser each made the all-league second team, the first postseason award for the latter two while Spees made it three straight seasons.

Goalie Kelly Hall made honorable mention, as well as all-academic Team for the third straight year.
Cassidy Oldham made the all-freshman team.
Senior Caroline Rairigh and sophomore Noah Kaufman of the Presbyterian cross country teams are on the Big South All-Academic team.
Rairigh, from Dahlonega, Ga., has a 3.93 GPA in psychology with a minor in French.
Kaufman, a Hilton Head Island product, has a 3.78 GPA while undecided on his major.

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