OIA football returning in August for first time in 3 seasons
Jun. 14—For the first time in three years, the Oahu Interscholastic Association will have football in August.
The league released its 2022 schedule on Saturday with games set to begin on Aug. 5.
The regular season will start two weeks after that with Kaiser hosting McKinley in a Division II game on Aug. 19.
The Open Division regular season will begin a day later when defending OIA and state champion Kahuku hosts Waianae.
Division I play begins Aug. 26.
Moanalua, which won the OIA Division I title in 2019 and lost in the final to Aiea last season, will move up to the Open Division this year, replacing Farrington, which drops down to Division I.
OIA Division II runner-up Radford will make the jump to Division I, giving the top two divisions seven teams each.
Division II will go from nine teams to eight.
Kahuku has loaded up its nonleague schedule with games against Punahou and Kamehameha of the ILH as well as national powerhouses St. John Bosco on the road in California on Sept. 17 and at home against Saint Frances (Md.) Academy on Sept. 30.
Saint Frances Academy finished fourth in the final USA Today Super 25 national rankings last year and St. John Bosco was seventh. Kahuku didn't make the top 25.
