The Northampton boys basketball team could not have asked for a better start to their 2024-25 campaign. They are 4-0 with an average margin of victory of almost 29 points per game.

Last Saturday’s 56-28 win against Bangor was probably not even that closely contested.

The K-Kids raced out to a 16-3 first quarter lead and extended it 23-3 within the first 2 minutes of the second quarter. At that point, head coach Matt Scholl pulled leading scorer Noah Walakovits, who already had 13 of his game high 15 points on 5 for 5 shooting from the floor including a pair of 3 pointers.

From there, Northampton basically just sat on their lead. They took a 29-11 margin into the halftime intermission and stretched it to 45-23 after three quarters.

With Scholl using his bench liberally throughout the second, the scoring was widely disbursed. Jake Raysley scored a dozen. Korbin Sollars had 10. Brady Simock scored 8. Leo Regec notched 7. Ronnie Jones and Jimmy Everett both had two.

Jones’ bucket got an exceptionally enthusiastic reaction from his teammates because it was the senior captain’s first-ever varsity basket.

Scholl commented on the secret to the team’s hot start, “We still don’t know exactly what we have, but I’m very impressed and proud of how they’re playing right now. As a coach, all you can ask for is to play hard, give everything you’ve got. We’re diving for all those balls.”

“For the first three games of the season, and I was here for a while as an assistant to coach Stampone, I think this is the hardest we’ve played to start a season. Sometimes, you have to push guys to get there and hope that it kicks in after Christmas. This year, we came out and hit the ground running,” he continued.

While the string of blowouts has been impressive, the games this week represent a step up in the level of competition. On Friday, the K-Kids host Liberty. On Monday, Parkland comes to town for a televised tilt. And finally, Northampton goes to Allen on Tuesday to face the resurgent Canaries.