CORVALLIS — Benton County District Attorney John Haroldson filed a court brief seeking charges against two Oregon State baseball players and a former player accused of firing rifle bullets into a neighbor’s property during late-night target practice.

Pitcher Jorge Reyes, 20, outfielder John Wallace, 21, and former pitcher Anton Maxwell, 22, were arrested Tuesday. Haroldson on Thursday sought charges of criminal mischief, unlawful use of a weapon and recklessly endangering another person. The information could be taken to a grand jury, or charges could continue through the court if the men waive their right to a grand jury review.

Coach Pat Casey on Thursday suspended Reyes and Wallace for this week’s three-game series against Pepperdine.

“Jorge and John are very good individuals and have a history of being terrific ambassadors for Oregon State University,” Casey said. “However, in this instance, they did some things that were out of character for them and not well thought through.”

Corvallis Police said the men were shooting at soda cans in Maxwell’s backyard Tuesday at 1:30 a.m., when some bullets went awry. One bullet landed in a neighbor’s bedroom and others struck a parked car. There were no injuries.

Wallace and Reyes both apologized by press release on Thursday.

“I understand and respect coach Casey’s decision,” Wallace said. “I deeply apologize for the incident. I sincerely regret my actions and putting coach Casey and our team in this situation.”

Said Reyes, the Most Outstanding Player of last year’s College World Series: “This is an unfortunate situation I have put myself, my coaches and my team in and for that I am sorry. I respect coach Casey’s decision and vow to learn from this mistake.”

PRO FOOTBALL

Hall agrees to deal with Raiders

ALAMEDA, Calif. — The Raiders and DeAngelo Hall agreed to terms on a $70 million, seven-year contract that cleared the way for the former Pro Bowl cornerback to be dealt from Atlanta to Oakland.

Hall arrived in the Bay Area to meet with Raiders owner Al Davis, coach Lane Kiffin and other team officials Wednesday and the deal was completed the following day. Hall will be guaranteed a little more than $24 million in the new deal, a person familiar with the contract said on condition of anonymity because terms were not released.

The Raiders wanted to sign Hall to a new contract before completing the deal with the Falcons in order to make sure they would have Hall for more than one year. Oakland sent a second-round pick, the 34th overall, in next month’s draft, and a fifth-round pick in 2009 to Atlanta in the deal.

Oakland has only one pick in the first four rounds of the draft, the fourth overall selection in the opening round. The Raiders previously traded their third-round pick to New England for the pick used to select offensive lineman Mario Henderson in last year’s draft, and its fifth-round pick to Denver for defensive tackle Gerard Warren.

The Raiders could try to recoup some of those lost picks by trading either cornerback Fabian Washington or Stanford Routt.

GOLF

Woods among chasers at CAChampionship

DORAL, Fla. — Tiger Woods shot 67 and was two shots off the lead Thursday at the CA Championship.

Woods hasn’t lost a tournament since September, a streak that includes six official victories around the world, the last title coming four days ago with a 25-foot birdie putt on the final hole at Bay Hill.

Woods was poised to catch Geoff Ogilvy and Miguel Angel Jimenez, each of whom opened at 7-under 65, until he missed a 7-foot birdie putt on the 16th and three-putted the 18th hole from 70 feet, missing the last one from 5 feet.

One shot out of the lead was Stewart Cink, who has played in the final group at three tournaments this year and is playing more consistently than anyone but Woods.

Phil Mickelson rallied from a double bogey in the water with four birdies over his final six holes to match Woods at 67, and they were joined by Adam Scott, who is No. 5 in the world and won the Qatar Masters earlier this year with a 61 on the last day.

Van Pelt takes lead at PGAevent

RIO GRANDE, Puerto Rico — Bo Van Pelt shot an 8-under 64 to take the first-round lead in the inaugural Puerto Rico Open.

Ted Purdy and Kyle Thompson opened with 66s on the Trump International Golf Club course. Jerry Kelly, Brenden Pappas, Jeff Overton, Briny Baird and Nicholas Thompson shot 67s.

Van Pelt birdied three of his last four holes en route to his best score since a 64 at the Travelers Championship nine months ago.

BASEBALL

Washington cuts pitcher Patterson

WASHINGTON — John Patterson was cut by the Washington Nationals in a surprise move, a little more than a week before the season begins.

Patterson was Washington’s opening-day starter in 2007. But he missed much of the last two seasons because of right forearm problems, limiting him to 15 starts in 2006 and 2007 combined. He had surgery in September to repair a nerve problem.

Still, he was considered in contention to get the start against the Atlanta Braves on March 30, when the Nationals begin this season at their new ballpark.

In other moves, the Nationals purchased the contract of left-hander Odalis Perez, and put right-hander Shawn Hill (right forearm), outfielder Wily Mo Pena (left side muscle) and reliever Ryan Wagner (right shoulder) on the 15-day disabled list.

The team also reassigned second baseman Bret Boone to minor league camp, saying he would begin the season at Triple-A Columbus. Boone, who turns 39 next month, came out of retirement to sign a minor league deal with the Nationals in February. He hasn’t played in the majors since 2005.

SOCCER

Americans qualify for Olympics

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Freddy Adu scored twice on free kicks, and the U.S. Under-23 team earned an Olympic berth by beating Canada 3-0 in the CONCACAF qualifying semifinals.

Sacha Klejstan also scored in a victory that gives the Americans their seventh berth in eight Olympics dating to 1980, with 2004 the lone miss in that stretch.

Honduras took the other berth in Beijing in the earlier semifinal in a 0-0 tie decided 6-5 on penalty kicks.

The Canadians missed qualifying for the Olympics again in a drought that stretches to 1984. They earned a spot in the semifinal by beating Guatemala 5-0 last weekend in Group B qualifying, but had trouble generating any offense against the Americans.

The United States, which had allowed only one goal in Group A qualifying, took the first four shots with most of the Americans’ offense set up by fouls on Jozy Altidore.

COLLEGE SWIMMING

Florida swimmer breaks NCAArecord

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Florida’s Caroline Burckle broke an 18-year record, one of three records broken on the first day of the NCAA Women’s Swimming and Diving Championships.

Burckle eclipsed four-time Olympic gold medalist Janet Evans’ 1990 NCAA 500-yard freestyle record of 4 minutes, 34.39 seconds, finishing in 4:33.60 to win by nearly 6 seconds after placing second a year ago.

Arizona, the 2007 team runner-up, set two marks to lead the team competition. The Wildcats broke their own 12-day-old NCAA, U.S. open and American record in the 200 freestyle relay with a time of 1:26.90; and later broke the 400 medley relay record set by California last year by nearly a second (3:29.06).

COLLEGE WRESTLING

Iowa has lead at NCAAtournament

ST. LOUIS — Top-ranked Iowa sent seven wrestlers to the quarterfinals, taking a big step toward its first NCAA title since 2000.

The Hawkeyes lost only one quarterfinal match and were 15-3 overall on the opening day of the three-day meet. They had 29 1/2 points and a three-point lead over Nebraska.

BOXING

Ward keeps record perfect

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Andre Ward stopped Rubin Williams late in the seventh round of their super middleweight bout Thursday night, keeping the Olympic gold medalist unbeaten as a professional.

Ward (15-0, 10 KOs), an Oakland native and the only American champion from the last two Olympics, had control from the opening round in his first fight since stopping Roger Cantrell last November.

He did it mostly with one arm, hitting the sluggish, overweight Williams with jabs and straight left hands almost at will. But Ward didn’t answer the questions about his killer instinct, failing to put away his overmatched opponent despite nearly seven rounds of target practice.

A cut over Williams’ left eye eventually did what Ward couldn’t. The cut opened in the second round, and the injury grew until the referee stopped the bout with 5 seconds left in the seventh round of Ward’s fifth straight KO victory.