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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31, 2016
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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.
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