Fifteen Long Island varsity baseball players and two coaches were suspended Wednesday after their school district learned the players made a late-night trip to a Florida strip club during spring break, officials told Newsday.

The kids were taken to the strip club by a parent, according to Newsday.

Massapequa (N.Y.) High School assistant coach Tom Sheedy told the newspaper that he and longtime head coach Bob Dell, who were suspended, did not know about the incident until two days later.

The team play its scheduled game Wednesday against John F. Kennedy High School, minus the 15 players and Sheedy and Dell. The junior varsity coach directed the team, and players who did not go to the strip club were allowed to play.

The suspensions come four days after Alabama football coach Mike Price lost his job after it was revealed that he spent time with strippers at a club in Pensacola, Fla.

Also, a high school baseball coach in Arizona has been dismissed after some unsupervised players hired a stripper at their Las Vegas Motel.

Saying that baseball coach Mark Tselentis brought "discredit and shame" to his program, Tucson Sahuaro officials fired him Thursday for failing to supervise his players and staff on the trip.

Four of the teenagers hired a stripper, and two volunteer assistant coaches drank alcoholic beverages in front of players and drove them around later while Tselentis was off gambling, according to a memorandum released by Sahuaro principal Mary E. Metzger.

Each spring the Masapequa team goes to Florida for one week. After playing three scrimmages in Cocoa Beach on April 22, Sheedy told the newspaper the team returned to its hotel. With no game until late the next day, the players were given a 1 a.m. curfew, according to Sheedy.

"A parent escorted a group of players into the club," Sheedy told Newsday. "This parent was buying drinks and who knows what else. You'd never think something like this could happen at Massapequa."

Dell has coached for 43 years, the last 13 at Massapequa.

"This is extremely disappointing," Sheedy told Newsday. "There are good kids and respectable players on the team."

One parent, Craig Garland, whose son Bobby, 17, was one of four players who did not go to the strip club and was not suspended, said in a television interview that the suspensions were a "rush to judgment."

"You have the kids who are accused who aren't playing. And the kids who aren't accused who aren't playing," he said. "The punishment did not fit the alleged crime. It ripped the heart right out of them."

In Arizona, principal Metzger alleged that some Tucson Sahuaro players vandalized motel property and cursed and spat upon other guests, resulting in their eviction.

"Your failure to supervise has placed the district at extreme risk of liability," Metzger wrote. The memo lists eight alleged school district policy violations during the tournament April 13-16.

The manager of a Motel 6 brought most of the incidents to light in a letter that the Tucson Unified School District received April 22. Officials interviewed students, coaches and others before notifying Tselentis on Monday that he would be dismissed. Metzger said the volunteer coaches were fired earlier.

Tselentis, 42, also will lose his girls volleyball coaching job at Tucson High, but will be allowed to keep his teaching position there, the district said.

Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.