Greenport/Southold/Mattituck does not have enough players to field a varsity football team this season and has become the second school to drop out of Suffolk Division IV this week.

Greenport athletic director Brian Toussaint made the announcement Friday afternoon.

“We held on for so long trying to get enough players,” he said. “We were hoping once school started that we’d get an uptick of students out for football. But we only had ninth-graders join.”

Greenport, Southold and Mattituck have combined to play football for the past 30 years. Toussaint said the plan is to have a junior varsity team this season and a varsity team next season.

“We had just over 20 players for the varsity team,” he said, “but we were having inconsistent attendance for practice. And in good conscience, we coul

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