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Lahainaluna High School sports seasons to start Sept. 24
LAHAINA — After the Aug. 20 false start for interscholastic sports — read football — the Hawaii Department of Education (HIDOE) announced last week a new schedule with Sept. 24, as the new start-up date for public school athletics. The schedule includes an 11-week regular season with playoffs but no preseason games. The Interscholastic League of Honolulu (ILH), a private school organization, began play last month. The announcement comes amid the growing COVID-19 pandemic Delta Variant that has spiked the state’s active cases to critical levels not seen for a year or more. The increase has once again strained the state’s medical response resources and prompted new protocols to control the spread of the virus. The new protocols will require all HIDOE student-athletes, staff and volunteers participating in school-sanctioned athletic activities to ...
