
Wyandanch Memorial High School forfeited its season finale following a suspected arson fire which claimed most of the team’s equipment — Wyandanch Memorial football
A Long Island high school has canceled the remainder of its 2014 football campaign following a fire, believed to be an act of arson, which consumed most of the team’s equipment.
As reported by New York ABC affiliate WABC, Wyandanch Memorial High School canceled the final game of its 2014 season following the aforementioned fire, which has been investigated as an act of arson. The lost game was scheduled to pit the Warriors against a combined team from schools on the North Fork of Long Island — Southold, Greenport and Mattituck — and will instead be ruled an official forfeit in favor of the North Fork combined squad, which plays under the Greenport mascot of the Porters.
The forfeited finale caps a tumultuous season for Wyandanch, which also was forced to suspend two players earlier in October for alleged “roughhousing” in the locker room, though officials made it clear that there were no sexual overtones as there were in the cases in Sayreville, N.J.
A day after those suspensions were handed down, a man stabbed two teenagers from North Amityville in a fight under the bleachers during Wyandanch’s homecoming game against Southampton.
While the forfeited finale left no opportunity for redemption on the field, the winless Warriors can at least rest assured that nothing else can go wrong in the 2014 season.