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‘LAP’ OF LUXURY: HS PLAYERS BRAG OF STRIP CLUB FOLLIES

Shamed members of the Massapequa HS baseball team told The Post yesterday how they boozed it up and enjoyed private lap dances with five topless women in a Florida strip joint on a weeklong spring-break trip.

“They were very high-quality lap dances. Very good,” bragged one player, who partied at the Sassy Merlot’s 2 club in Cocoa Beach.

But the bump-and-grind fun has come at a big price: 15 players have been booted from the team and replaced by members of the junior varsity, and some have even been dumped by their girlfriends.

And head coach Bob Dell and his assistant, Tom Sheedy, have been suspended with pay.

Massapequa schools Superintendent Lawrence Pereira said at a school-board meeting last night that the panel had not yet decided on the final disciplinary measures for the players and coaches.

The scandal, which has torn apart the Nassau County school, erupted following a spring-break trip late last month in which the team members played scrimmages, soaked up the sun and sneaked off to watch strippers three straight nights.

Yesterday, two team members described their nights of $5 beers, $7 mixed drinks and $20-a-pop lap dances at a secluded table.

“There were five girls and they just went to each of us. They did lap dances. Then the girls would get off those guys and go on to the next,” said one player, who asked not to be identified.

It’s unclear if the players went with an adult or by themselves with fake IDs. The coaches have denied being there, as have the parent chaperons.

The club manager, who identified herself as Ally, said, “I do not recall them. We are an adult-entertainment business and nobody under 18 is allowed in without an ID.”

It’s possible the adults knew exactly what the boys were up to because several players said the strip-club visit was an annual ritual.

One parent, widely suspected of taking the boys, insisted, “There were no parents involved in this. I was not there.”

Meanwhile, the players involved have apologized to the school board. But their girlfriends are taking action.

“I flipped out. I said, ‘It’s over.’ He has me – he can see my body. He can’t go out and look at other girls,” said one 16-year-old.

Another girl, Marissa, 16, said she instantly showed her star-player love the door.

“I said, ‘You went to a strip club.’ He said, ‘Yo, how did you find out?’ I ripped the necklace he gave me off of my neck and threw it in his face.” she said.

Additional reporting by Lisa Pulitzer