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SPORTS WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31, 2016 1B FOLLOW US ON TWITTER @EOSPORTS HERMISTON Bulldogs rebound, roll over Pioneers Abraham Gomez, of Mac-Hi, heads the ball Tues- day during a non-con- ference game at Kennison Field as Miguel Hoyos defends. Hermiston scores three unanswered to beat Mac-Hi Staff photo by Kathy Aney The Mac-Hi Pioneers struck fi rst, but couldn’t hold off Hermis- ton’s attackers in the second half as the Bulldogs scored back-to-back goals in the 53rd and 54th minutes to earn the 3-1 non-league victory By MATT ENTRUP East Oregonian Boys Soccer Mac-Hi Hermiston 1 3 on Tuesday at Kennison Field. “Anytime you go a goal down, anytime you come from behind it’s a huge win,” Hermiston boys soccer coach Rich Harshberger said, “and it’s important that we got that one early so we won’t have to get our fi rst come-from- behind win late in the season. “It just shows the kind of heart that we have and I’m really proud See BULLDOG BOYS/2B The Bull- dog’s Miguel Hoyos and Carlos Evange- lista, of Mac-Hi, battle for the ball during Tues- day’s game at Ken- nison Field. Staff photo by Kathy Aney HERMISTON Gilbert, Gomez lead Hermiston over Mac-Hi Bulldogs offense continues fast start with four more goals By MATT ENTRUP East Oregonian The Hermiston girls soccer teams hasn’t been able to asso- ciate penalty kicks with positive memories very often lately, but already have one this season after a non-league win over Mac-Hi on Tuesday at Kennison Field. “It’s one of those things,” said Hermiston coach Danielle Turner. “This group of seniors, PKs is what knocked them out of the playoffs their (sophomore) year. So for some of them it’s still kind of a sore subject.” Senior Shaelynn Gilbert said the Bulldogs haven’t had a chance to practice the situation Girls Soccer Mac-Hi Hermiston 0 4 this season, but she wasn’t feeling any pressure before beating Mac-Hi goal keeper Mallory Copeland from the penalty line to break a scoreless tie in the 24th minute. Gilbert would add another goal in the second half, and freshman Lanie Gomez had a shutout in her fi rst game in goal as Hermiston rolled to a 4-0 win. “Lanie stepped up really big as a freshman and really did well,” Turner said. “She’s fresh meat but she did, she held her own. She did good, we had good confi dence in her. This was good for her, it was a decent team for her to get a shutout.” Mac-Hi (0-1) tested Gomez early, but Hermiston (2-0) was able to keep the ball on the other half of the fi eld for most of the second half. “I think once we kind of got comfortable in the game and where the pace was going to be and where we were going to be able to play our strengths we defi - nitely settled down and in certain cases dominated,” Turner said. After also beating Umatilla 4-0 on Saturday, Hermiston is off to fast start and more than halfway to matching last season’s goal total of 13. “They’ve defi nitely come together fairly well,” Turner said. “The chemistry that they have early is fairly promising for us as coaches, and if we can just keep moving forward with that and the simple things that we’re trying to do in the fi eld, we’ll be tough.” Senior midfi elder Makayla See HERMISTON GIRLS/2B Staff photo by Kathy Aney Sydney Richwine (15), of Mac-Hi, and Hermiston’s Alysia Garcia (10) go toe-to-toe during Tuesday’s game at Kennison Field. Prep Football Oregon coach facing criminal charges following hazing scandal Six players also facing charges for targeting freshmen By STEVEN DUBOIS Associated Press PORTLAND — A volunteer football coach and six players for a small town Oregon high school Anibal Ortiz/The Gazette Times via AP Philomath High School is shown Monday, team face criminal charges for a hazing initiation in which 11 Aug. 29, 2016, in Philomath, Ore. freshmen at a summer training camp had intimate parts of their bodies “aggressively targeted,” a prosecutor said Tuesday. The Philomath High School volunteer coach, Cooper Kikuta, has been charged with misde- meanor criminal mistreatment, punishable by up to a year in jail, and the players who allegedly hazed the freshmen are accused of juvenile crimes similar to adult charges of misdemeanor harass- ment and assault, said Benton County District Attorney John Haroldson. Haroldson said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press that sexual abuse charges were not fi led because he “didn’t see any evidence in the case to indicate that the touching was done for purposes of sexual arousal, but rather it was done in a hazing context.” The alleged hazing happened during the football team’s July trip to Camp Rilea on Oregon’s northern coast, Haroldson said. The players were targeted “as a form of initiation” and one of the alleged victims was grabbed and held down twice, said Haroldson, the Corvallis Gazette-Times reported. Kikuta, 22, previously played on the Philomath team. “The basis of the charge is that he withheld care for the kids that he was supervising,” Haroldson said Tuesday. “This occurred in his presence.” Public records show Kikuta lives in Corvallis, home to See HAZING/2B Sports shorts Vikings starting QB out for season EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. (AP) The Minnesota Vikings say quarterback Teddy Bridgewater suffered a dislocated left knee and complete tear to his ACL in a freak practice injury. FACES The Vikings made the announcement on Tuesday night, hours after Bridgewater was taken from the practice fi eld in an ambulance to a local hospital. The injury left a franchise that entered the season with hopes on a Super Bridgewater Bowl run shaken to the core. Head athletic trainer Eric Sugarman says Bridgewater also suffered other structural damage to his knee, but there appears to be no nerve or arterial damage. Sugarman says Bridgewater is expected to make a full recovery after a “signifi cant” rehabilitation. He will have surgery in the coming days. “This isn’t about publicity. It’s defi nitely not about money. I took a pay cut to do this. For me, you pursue what you love regardless of what else happens ... When did pursuing what you love become such a bad thing?“ — Tim Tebow The 28-year-old former NFL quarterback after his baseball workout in front of 28 MLB teams in Los Angeles on Tuesday. Tebow is trying to make a career change into professional baseball. EOU football names four as team captains for 2016 LA GRANDE — EOU head coach Tim Camp announced his 2016 team captains on Tuesday afternoon, headlined by senior quarterback Zach Bartlow. Joining Bartlow as captains are senior DB John Payne, junior WR Calvin Connors and senior LB Tucker Stanley, all of whom earned all-conference honors following the 2015 season. Payne racked up 34 tackles last season as a cornerback and was voted as the team’s ‘Most Inspirational’ last season as well. Connors caught a team-high seven touchdowns and made his mark as one of the best kick returners in the country. And Stanley is the team’s returning tackler from last season, when he racked up 70 total tackles and fi ve sacks. EOU opens its season on Saturday when they host Southern Oregon at 6 p.m. THIS DATE IN SPORTS 1895 — The fi rst professional football game is played, featuring Penn- sylvania teams Latrobe and Jeannette. Latrobe pays $10 to quarterback John Brallier for expenses. 2001 — Pitcher Danny Almonte who dominated the Little League World Series with his 70 mph fast- balls is ruled ineligible after government records experts determine he actually is 14. The fi nding nullifi es all the victories by his Bronx, N.Y., team, the Rolando Paulino Little League All-Stars. Contact us at 541-966-0838 or sports@eastoregonian.com