By MONTE DUTTON

What is Presbyterian College if not a place for the little guy?
Collin Hurst is quite a little guy. He’s 5-10, a buck 65. Plays QB. Just a red-shirt freshman, out of Davie, Fla.
Davie, Davie, Florida, king of the wild frontier. A little mythology never hurt anybody, not unless it was on TikTok or something. It’s in Broward County, north of Miami. It’s a shame the leader of the Blue Hose’ 28-7 upset of Dayton didn’t rassle alligators. Maybe that was Alex Herriott. He’s from Hanahan.

Cally Gault would have liked Hurst. Coach Gault was a little guy with guts, too.
PC, after opening the season 2-6, has won its last two games, both in the aptly named Pioneer Football League, by a combined score of 70-21. Nothing about dominating Dayton (5-3, 3-2) was cheap. Presbyterian (4-6, 2-4) shredded the best defense in the league.
“The first four conference games were all nail-biters,” said Hurst. “All of them came down to the end, and all of them we lost. As much as we could have laid down and quit on the season, we took that to heart. We’ve learned to compete, and we’re getting there.

“Stuff that’s happened this year is how I got thrown in the fire. As a quarterback, I’m going to hold on. The whole team, we’ve just tried to get better every day. We try to perfect our craft.”
Hurst was hardly alone in the heroes’ department. He zoned in on 22/27 passes, hit Dominic Kibby on seven of them, amassed 208 yards and led an offense that committed no turnovers.
As a result, head coach Steve Englehart walked through the door to the interview room and emitted a primal scream that was almost eloquent.

“It’s a really great team win,” he said. “It felt like a bomb on a map. Back-to-back. PFL wins. … Yeah, it was really good.”
Englehart called it “a toughness win.”
“We talked about the tough losses,” he added. “We figured, you win one of them and it would start a domino effect.”
So far, damned if it didn’t work.

By the end of the game, the score seemed normal. After an errant Dayton punt snap tumbled through the end zone, the score was once 5-0. At halftime, it was 15-0.

Peter Lipscombe, a senior from Catonsville, Md., contributed to the cause with field goals of 27, 22 and 34 yards.
Presbyterian lost its first four PFL games by 11, six, seven and three points. Two were in overtime.
The simple reason is it learned how to win.

Naturally, the Flyers flew some. The lanky quarterback, Drew VanVleet – would that he could have been named Vic – tossed the old pigskin around Bailey Memorial Stadium 40 times and fund residency with 26 of them, but Dayton trailed 25-0 before the Flyers scored.
PC forced a patient Dayton offense to turn frantic, and it showed. Van Vleet divided 231 yards among eight receivers, five of whom had at least three. Gavin Lochow caught six himself, though for only 48 yards.

PC’s Zeb Stroup intercepted one of them.

The Flyers were not built for speed. The 6-5 quarterback, from Richmond, Ind., is also a red-shirt freshman.
“It’s just great,” said Herriott. “Obviously, I wish we could’ve been doing this all year, it’s been great to see it starting up.
“It’s all flipped. We found that switch. We’re mad as hell, and we’re not going to take it anymore.”

Presbyterian achieved back-to-back conference victories for the first time since joining the PFL, forcing four second-half turnovers and controlling the clock.
The Blue Hose outgained their visitors in total yards, 190-38, in the first 30 minutes, going on to defeat the Flyers for the second year in a row.

“This was a real tough team we played,” Englehart said. “I thought we matched or exceeded their physicalness and toughness. I just wanted us to play a tough brand of football.

“As for our offense and the way Collin (Hurst) has developed, it’s not only his development, but I think it’s our offensive staff teaching him better and putting him in real good situations. He’s protecting the football and getting involved with our playmakers, and we’re taking some shots we didn’t take earlier in the season.”

PC takes a well-deserved week off before taking a trip to Poughkeepsie, N.Y., to play Marist (0-9, 0-6) on Nov. 16 at noon.
Take a look at the stats here.
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