KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The banged-up Kansas City Chiefs offensive line lost right guard Laurent Duvernay-Tardif to a left knee injury on their second offensive play Monday night against Washington.

Duvernay-Tardif, who signed a five-year, $41.25 million contract extension earlier this year, was blocking for Kareem Hunt when his knee got rolled over at an awkward angle. He remained on the field for a few minutes before the training staff helped him to the sideline.

The Chiefs were already playing without center Mitch Morse, who missed his second straight game with a foot sprain, and backup guard Parker Ehinger, who had surgery for a torn ACL last year.

Left tackle Eric Fisher missed practice with back spasms this week but started the game.

The Top Ten teams in the Associated Press Iowa high school football polls of the 2017 season with first-place votes in parentheses and won-loss record, total points and position last week at right:

Others receiving votes: Southeast Polk 7. Council Bluffs Lewis Central 7. Eldridge North Scott 6. Cedar Rapids Kennedy 6. Ankeny Centennial 1.

Others receiving votes: Webster City 12. Sioux City Heelan 10. Storm Lake 3. Norwalk 2. Davenport Assumption 2. Decorah 1. Carlisle 1.

Others receiving votes: Aplington-Parkersburg 19. 12, Sheldon 5.

Others receiving votes: Jewell South Hamilton 4. Belmond-Klemme 3.

Others receiving votes: Packwood Pekin 8. Lawton-Bronson 2. Lisbon 1. New London 1. Britt West Hancock 1. Akron-Westfield 1.

Others receiving votes: Westside Ar-We-Va 16. Stanton 10. Colo-NESCO 10. Fremont Mills, Tabor 6. Lone Tree 5. Wyoming Midland 3. Moravia 1. Janesville 1.

Radio Iowa High School Football Poll 10/2/17

Class 4A
1. Dowling Catholic (6-0), LW #1 @ C.B. Abe Lincoln
2. Iowa City West (6-0), LW #2 vs C.R. Kennedy
3. WDM Valley (5-1), LW #3 vs Indianola
4. Bettendorf (5-1), LW #4 @ Davenport North (Thurs)
5. Cedar Rapids Prairie (5-1), LW #5 @ Linn-Mar
6. Johnston (5-1), LW #6 vs Sioux City North
7. Cedar Falls (5-1), LW #7 @ Waterloo West
8. Waukee (4-2), LW #8 @ DSM East
9. Pleasant Valley (5-1), LW #9 # #10 North Scott
10.North Scott (5-1), LW (X) vs #9 Pleasant Valley

Class 3A
1. Cedar Rapids Xavier (6-0), LW #1 vs #8 Waverly-Shell Rock
2. Solon (6-0), LW #2 @ Mount Pleasant
3. Sergeant Bluff-Luton (6-0), LW #3 vs Humboldt
4. Dallas Center-Grimes (6-0), LW #5 @ Iowa Falls-Alden
5. Pella (5-1), LW #7 vs Norwalk
6. Harlan (5-1), LW #8 @ Winterset
7. Boone (6-0), LW #9 vs Ballard
8. Waverly-Shell Rock (6-0), LW (X) @ #1 C.R. Xavier
9. West Delaware (5-1), LW (X) vs Dubuque Wahlert
10.Webster City (5-1), LW #6 @ Perry

Class 2A
1. Williamsburg (6-0), LW #1 vs West Liberty
2. Cascade (6-0), LW #2 vs Dyersville Beckman
3. Mount Vernon (5-1), LW #3 vs Mediapolis
4. Union (LaPorte City), (5-1), LW #4 vs #5 Waukon
5. Waukon (5-1), LW #5 @ #4 Union
6. Boyden-Hull/Rock Valley (5-1), LW #6 vs MOC/Floyd Valley
7. Clear Lake (5-1), LW #7 vs Clarion-Goldfield-Dows/CAL
8. Sioux Center (6-0), LW #8 vs Sheldon
9. South Central Calhoun (5-1), LW #9 @ Underwood
10.PCM (Monroe) (5-1), LW #10 vs Eddyville-Blakesburg-Fremont

Class 1A
1. West Lyon (6-0), LW #1 vs #3 Western Christian
2. Pella Christian (6-0), LW #2 @ #5 Pleasantville
3. Western Christian (5-1), LW #3 @ #1 West Lyon
4. Van Meter (6-0), LW #4 @ West Central Valley
5. Pleasantville (6-0), LW #5 vs #2 Pella Christian
6. Iowa City Regina (4-2), LW #6 vs Van Buren
7. AHSTW (Avoca) (6-0), LW #7 @ OA-BCIG
8. West Branch (6-0), LW #8 @ North Cedar
9. Bellevue (5-1), LW #9 @ Clayton Ridge
10.Denver (5-1), LW (X) vs MFL MarMac

Class A
1. Gladbrook-Reiunbeck (6-0), LW #1 vs #6 Hudson
2. Council Bluffs St. Albert (6-0), LW #2 vs #10 Southwest Valley
3. Lynnville-Sully (6-0), LW #3 @ New London
4. West Sioux (6-0), LW #4 vs Maple Valley-Anthon-Oto
5. Algona Garrigan (6-0), LW #5 vs Ridge View
6. Hudson (6-0), LW #6 @ #1 Gladbrook-Reinbeck
7. Wapsie Valley (6-0), LW #7 vs Starmont
8. Saint Ansgar (6-0), LW #9 vs Mason City Newman
9. East Buchanan (5-1), LW #10 vs Alburnett
10.Southwest Valley (6-0), LW (X) @ #2 St. Albert

8-man
1. Don Bosco (6-0), LW #1 vs West Central (Maynard)
2. Audubon (6-0), LW #2 @ Glidden-Ralston
3. Remsen St. Mary’s (6-0), LW #3 @ Kingsley-Pierson
4. Sidney (6-0), LW #4 @ Woodbine
5. Harris-Lake Park (4-1), LW #5 @ #8 Newell-Fonda
6. Tripoli (6-0), LW #7 vs North Iowa
7. AR-WE-VA (Westside) (6-1), LW #8 @ Boyer Valley
8. Newell-Fonda (5-1), LW #9 vs #5 Harris-Lake Park
9. Colo-Nesco (5-1), LW (X) @ HLV (Victor)
10.Janesville (5-1), LW (X) vs Riceville

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Several thousand hunters will take to the woods with a bow looking to bring home a deer in the next several weeks. D-N-R wildlife biologist Jim Coffey says the bow season has become more and more popular because of what it offers to hunters. “Probably the most unique thing about archery season is the hunting experience itself and the fact that a lot of people will hunt individually. It’s not quite as social as the shotgun season with the party system. And this gives people a chance to get that one-on-one relationship with nature,” Coffey says.

The season opened Sunday (Oct 1) and some 62-thousand hunters are expected to take part. He says on a slow deer day, there’s still plenty to see. “If there’s not deer then you are observing the squirrels and you’re observing the woodpeckers and all of the other parts of nature. It’s just a very solace type of feeling that connects you back to nature,” according to Coffey. ” A lot of bowhunters are hunting from tree stands, and that puts you right up there in intimately in the habitat itself.”

The deer movement is a little different this time of year too, as they are still in their summer pattern, moving from their bedding areas to food sources.  “We’re still fairly green,but we’re turning into an early fall mixture. The leaves will be falling, we’re looking at corn be coming out which changes the habitat evaluation — so it just makes for a different experience,” Coffey says. “A lot of times the deer hunter’s going to be looking at the bedding areas and feeding areas and not so much worried about the ruts or the physical activity of the deer that are based the deer social behaviors, they are looking at the actual day-to-day movement of deer.”

Using a bow takes hunters back to the very early days of hunting. Though Coffey says the modern bows used today are the top of the line in technology. “And that’s good, but ultimately you still have to have good woodsmanship skills — you still have got to understand your weapon — just because it’s an expensive or a better weapon doesn’t mean that you know how to operate it,” Coffey says. “You’ve got to be practicing, you’ve got to understand your abilities and distance and judging. You need to practice from shooting from that elevated position because your angles change, which means it’s not the same as shooting at a target in the back yard.”

Coffey says practicing is important to avoid accidents with your bow and he says you need to check all of your equipment to be sure you are safe. “The number one hunting-related accident in Iowa is falling from a bow stand,” Coffey says. “So checking out those bolts and screws and straps on those stands…those are the most important critical things you can do.” He says the great experience of the hunt can be ruined because a piece of equipment wasn’t checked and failed. “Going into the woods and coming out of the woods is the greatest thing you can do — not harvesting a deer,” he says.

Coffey says you should at least get a chance to see a deer. He says deer numbers are about what they were last year and he expects the total harvest from ALL the seasons should be around 100-thousand deer. Bow hunters took nearly 13-thousand of those deer last year. The archery season will close on December 1st for the shotgun seasons, then reopens on December 18th until closing on January 10th.

(Radio Iowa)

(2-0) Harlan 21-21, Carlisle 12-12
(2-0) Harlan 21-21, Ottumwa 16-11
(2-0) Harlan 21-22, Pella 18-20
(2-1) Harlan 24-25-15, Boone 26-21-11
(2-0) Missouri Valley 21-21, Heartland Christian 10-6
(2-1) Missouri Valley 25-19-15, Shenandoah 21-25-9
(2-0) Missouri Valley 25-22, Exira-EHK 23-20
(2-1) Pella 24-25-15, Harlan 26-23-12
(2-0) Red Oak 21-21, Fremont-Mills 6-11
(2-0) Red Oak 21-21, Lawton-Bronson 9-10
(2-0) Red Oak 21-21, Stanton 11-8
(2-0) Red Oak 21-21, Westwood, Sloan 17-13
(2-0) St. Albert, Council Bluffs 21-21, Council Bluffs, Thomas Jefferson 8-9
(2-0) St. Albert, Council Bluffs 21-21, Siouxland Christian 10-9
(2-1) St. Albert, Council Bluffs 25-20-15, Shenandoah 9-25-6
(2-0) St. Albert, Council Bluffs 25-25, Missouri Valley 15-11
(2-0) Tri-Center, Neola 21-21, Fremont-Mills 6-5
(2-0) Tri-Center, Neola 21-21, Lawton-Bronson 15-12
(2-0) Tri-Center, Neola 21-21, Stanton 11-11
(2-0) Tri-Center, Neola 21-21, Westwood, Sloan 9-7
(2-1) Tri-Center, Neola 21-9-15, Red Oak 18-21-12
(2-1) Woodbury Central 21-18-15, Boyer Valley 10-21-12
(2-0) Woodbury Central 21-21, River Valley 11-13
(2-0) Woodbury Central 23-21, St. Mary’s, Remsen 21-12

ST. LOUIS (AP) – The Milwaukee Brewers were eliminated from playoff contention Saturday when they squandered a six-run lead in a 7-6 loss to the St. Louis Cardinals, handing baseball’s final postseason spot to the Colorado Rockies. Brewers reliever Anthony Swarzak gave up a two-run single to Stephen Piscotty that tied it in the eighth inning and a go-ahead single to Harrison Bader. Milwaukee tried to rally and save its season in the bottom half, but Brett Phillips struck out with a runner on second to end it.

Milwaukee’s loss clinched the second NL wild card for Colorado, which will play at NL West rival Arizona in the wild-card game Wednesday.  The Brewers began the day needing to win their last two regular-season games in St. Louis while the Rockies dropped their final two at home to the Los Angeles Dodgers to force a tiebreaker Monday.

EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) – Brian Lewerke threw two touchdown passes to Felton Davis in the first quarter, and Michigan State held on for a 17-10 victory over Iowa on Saturday. The Spartans (3-1, 1-0 Big Ten) dominated early, and their defense forced two crucial turnovers in the third quarter. Iowa (3-2, 0-2) managed only 19 yards rushing and has now lost its first two conference games for the first time since 2008. Davis surpassed his career high in receptions before halftime and finished with nine for 114 yards. His touchdown catches of 22 and 6 yards gave Michigan State a 14-0 lead, and that was enough for the Spartans to come away with an important home victory. Akrum Wadley scored for Iowa on a 9-yard run in the second quarter, but he was held to 30 yards on 17 carries.

The Hawkeyes trailed 17-7 at halftime but were on the verge of scoring on the first drive of the third quarter. After a successful fake field goal, Iowa was inside the 10-yard line, but quarterback Nate Stanley had the ball slip out of his hand as he began a throwing motion, and linebacker Joe Bachie came diving in to catch it out of the air. Brandon Smith fumbled the ball away in Michigan State territory on Iowa’s next possession. The Spartans held on at the end after Lewerke scrambled for a first down on third-and-12 with under 4:00 to play. By the time Iowa got the ball back, the Hawkeyes were back at their own 16 with 45 seconds remaining.

The Hawkeyes lost to Penn State on the final play last weekend, but they were outgained badly in that game, and their inability to move the ball against Michigan State is cause for concern. The last time Iowa started 0-2 in Big Ten play, the Hawkeyes did rebound quickly, winning five of their final six conference games. Up Next for Iowa: The Hawkeyes host Illinois next Saturday.

CARBONDALE, Ill. (AP) – Eli Dunne was 26-of-36 passing for 266 yards and three touchdowns and the Northern Iowa defense forced three fourth-quarter turnovers to help Panthers beat Southern Illinois 24-17 on Saturday night in the Missouri Valley Conference opener for both teams. Daurice Fountain had seven catches for 106 yards and a score and Trevor Allen had 75 yards rushing on 18 carries and added an 11-yard touchdown reception for Northern Iowa (2-2).

Sam Drysdale kicked a 45-yard field goal to give Northern Iowa a 3-0 lead with 4:01 left in the first quarter and, after the Salukis went three-and-out, Dunne’s 11-yard touchdown pass to Fountain made it 10-0 early in the second. Matt Sotiropoulos hit a 32-yard field goal put Southern Illinois on the board with 4:24 left in the half, but a 42-yard reception by Fountain set up a 4-yard TD catch by Elias Nessen that made it 17-3 at the break.

Kyron Watson forced, and then recovered, a fumble by Allen and, four plays later, Sam Straub hit Jacob Varble for a 5-yard touchdown that pulled the Salukis to 24-17 with 11:17 to play, but the Panthers forced turnovers on each of Southern Illinois’ next three possessions – including an interception by Jake Hartford at the 3 with 1:47 remaining.