Two members of Oregon State University's baseball team and one who played on the team last year are expected to enter into a plea bargain with prosecutors in connection with firing a rifle within city limits.

Jorge Reyes, 20, John Wallace, 21, and Anton Maxwell, 22, were arrested on March 18 and later charged with unlawful use of a weapon, recklessly endangering another person and criminal mischief in Benton County Circuit Court.

Wallace and Maxwell are scheduled to appear in court June 16. Reyes was granted out-of-state travel on Thursday and is scheduled for an Aug. 26 hearing. All three are expected to enter into a plea agreement, but have the option to change their minds.

The three are accused of firing rifle bullets into a house March 18 during some late-night target shooting at some cans in front of a fence. One of the bullets went through a bedroom window, bounced off a wall and onto a bed. The bullets also struck a car parked behind that house in a neighborhood north of campus.

No one was injured in the incident, but two residents of the house were home at the time - including a man who was sleeping in the bedroom.

Reyes and Wallace are starters for the OSU Beavers baseball team. Both were suspended by coach Pat Casey for a three-game stretch against Pepperdine University in March. Maxwell was a pitcher on the team last year.

OSU athletic director Bob De Carolis said in an interview last week that he believed, after speaking with the attorney for Reyes and Wallace, the charges would be lessened and the suspensions would prove to have been appropriate.

Unlawful use of a weapon is a class C felony.

The athletic department's discipline policy states that the "overriding principle" governing discipline of student-athletes is that they will be immediately suspended until the legal process runs its course. Athletes will be permanently dismissed if they plead no contest or guilty to a felony, or are convicted of a felony. However, the policy also leaves room for "mitigating circumstances" that could alter the consequences.

Casey and De Carolis have not commented on what the mitigating circumstances are, but De Carolis said he had concerns about the policy.

"Here's the problem with the code of conduct, it jumps the gun," De Carolis said last week. "It presumes you are guilty. It's counter to how society works. Having said that, if you wait for the legal system to take its course, you may never accomplish anything."