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DENVER -- Semyon Varlamov put recent struggles behind him, and the Colorado Avalanches sputtering offense did the same -- at least for one night.Varlamov had 32 saves, Patrick Wiercioch and Rene Bourque scored 22 seconds apart and the Avalanche beat the Los Angeles Kings 4-1 on Tuesday night.Gabriel Landeskog and Blake Comeau also scored for Colorado, and Wiercioch added an assist for an offense that scored more than three goals for the first time in 12 games.Weve been waiting for this (for) pretty long, Varlamov said of the four goals. Its always nice to see them.Varlamov had been a victim of Colorados lack of offense when he went through a personal five-game losing streak. He struggled, too, posting a 3.07 goals-against average during that stretch, though he bounced back in a losing effort against Boston on Sunday.He followed that 44-save performance with another strong one against the Kings.The team played well in front of me, he said. When the guys score lots of goals it gives you more confidence.Dustin Brown scored for Los Angeles and Peter Budaj stopped 26 shots. It was the Kings fourth straight loss after opening their five-game trip with a win in Toronto.We hit some posts, but we didnt bear down on the chances we had, Drew Doughty said. We have to make our chances count.The Avalanche had not scored a regulation goal for more than five periods before getting two quick ones at the start of the second.Wiercioch broke through when he stuffed the puck between Budajs skate and the post at 1:10 for his second goal of the season.I was skating behind the net and saw him cheating off the post, so I tried it, Wiercioch said. It doesnt work a lot in practice. Maybe he was reading pass because we had a guy coming down in the slot. I was able to get my stick around and jam it off his pad.Bourque then put his stick on Mikko Rantanens shot from the blue line and redirected it past Budaj at 1:32. It was his fifth of the season and third in three games.The Kings had several chances to get back into it before Brown scored. With Tyson Barrie off for hooking, Nic Dowd backhanded the puck to the front of the net and Brown knocked it in to make it 2-1 with 31 seconds left in the period. It was his third of the season and just the second power-play goal in the last 33 chances for the Kings.The Avalanche made it a two-goal game at 11:32 of the third when Comeau beat Budaj with a shot from between the circles. The Kings challenged play, claiming Jarome Iginla interfered with Budaj, but the goal was upheld upon review.We challenged it because the goalies in the blue paint and he gets bumped a little, Kings coach Darryl Sutter said.Landeskog scored an empty-net goal at 18:23 to make it 4-1.Game notes Avalanche C Nathan MacKinnon had a career-high 10 shots on goal. ... 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In fact, this years unit is ranked No. 1 in the FCS and has fueled the three-time defending Southern Conference champions to a No. 5 ranking in the STATS FCS Top 25.There wasnt much movement near the top of the national media poll on Monday, with the top seven teams remaining unchanged: North Dakota State was a unanimous No. 1 followed by Sam Houston State, Jacksonville State, Eastern Washington, Chattanooga, Richmond and James Madison.Chattanooga beat ETSU 37-7 to improve to 5-0 for the first time since 1979. The Mocs surrendered only 132 yards, the fewest they had allowed in over a year. Theyre leading the FCS in fewest points (8.4) and yards (202.8) allowed per game.We talk about playing up to our potential. Thats what we talk about, junior free safety Lucas Webb said. We talk to each other about playing up to our standard. We try to play to what we expect to be as a defense and be who we want to be as a defensive unit.Head coach Russ Huesman was a sophomore defensive back the last time Chattanooga was 5-0. The Mocs seniors, including five defensive starters, have 32 wins in their careers and are one shy of tying the school record.Up next are two of Chattanoogas biggest games. On Saturday, the Mocs host Mercer, which handed them a 17-14 loss last year -- the only defeat in their last 17 SoCon games. It forced them to share last years conference title with The Citadel, which they visit on Oct. 15.North Dakota State (4-0), the five-time reigning FCS champion, just beat the team with which it shared the last two Missouri Valley Conference titles, Illinois State, 31-10 as quarterbback Easton Stick threw three touchdown passes.ddddddddddddThe Bison received 164 first-place votes in this weeks poll.Sam Houston (4-0) routed rival Stephen F. Austin 63-28 in the Southland Conference, while two-time defending Ohio Valley Conference champion Jacksonville State (3-1) had a bye. Eastern Washington (4-1) topped UC Davis 63-30 in the Big Sky Conference. In CAA Football, Richmond (4-1) beat Towson 31-28 and James Madison (4-1) defeated Delaware 43-20.The rest of the Top 10 was Charleston Southern (3-2), which edged Coastal Carolina 59-58 in two overtimes; The Citadel (4-0), a 37-14 winner over Western Carolina; and Montana (3-1), which stopped defending Big Sky champ Southern Utah 43-20.The Missouri Valley had four of the next five spots with No. 11 Northern Iowa (2-2), No. 12 South Dakota State (2-2), No. 13 Western Illinois (3-1) and No. 15 Youngstown State (3-1). CAA member Villanova (4-1) was No. 14.Albany (4-0), which had the weekend off, was No. 16 followed by Coastal Carolina (3-2), North Carolina A&T (3-1), Eastern Illinois (3-2) and McNeese (3-2).Then it was Cal Poly (3-2), Harvard (3-0), Illinois State (2-3), North Dakota (3-2) returning to the poll at No. 25 and Central Arkansas (4-1) moving into it at No. 25.William & Mary and Indiana State fell out of the Top after losses.A national panel of sports information and media relations directors, broadcasters, writers and other dignitaries select the STATS FCS Top 25. In the voting, a first-place vote is worth 25 points, a second-place vote 24 points, all the way down to one point for a 25th-place vote.The Top 25 is released every Monday afternoon during the regular season, except for Sunday morning, Nov. 20, prior to the selection of the 24-team FCS playoff field. A final Top 25 will follow the FCS championship game, which will be held Jan. 7 in Frisco, Texas. ' ' '