Twenty-two.

The Pleasant Valley girls basketball team is scheduled to play 22 games during the regular season.

One won’t define the Bears’ campaign.

A 92-67 loss on Saturday to Northampton put an end to Pleasant Valley’s unbeaten start, but it didn’t diminish what the team has already accomplished this year.

Or change their goals for the 12 contests that lie ahead.

“They’re a strong group of eight. We keep saying that, and we keep reiterating that,” Bears’ head coach Nadia Gauronsky said of her team. “The season is long, and you’re going to hit bumps in the road; there are ebbs and flows to the game.

“Just like anything, this is a long relationship, so we need to just continue on the path that we’re going down, and just play the way we’ve been playing, because we’ve been playing phenomenally, so hopefully that continues.”

Pleasant Valley (9-1) simply ran into a tough Eastern Pennsylvania Conference team that could do no wrong.

Well, almost.

“We were nervous coming here, and of all things our bus forgets about us … so we didn’t get here on time,” laughed Konkrete Kids mentor Jeff Jacksits. “Everything seemed like it was going wrong to start the day, and we’re notorious for not playing our best in Saturday afternoon games.”

Northampton’s (9-2) offense quickly put Jacksits at ease.

Morgan Sterner, Victoria Keenan and Jenna Rogers combined for 78 of the team’s points. Sterner led the way with 30 points, while Keenan added 27 and Rogers tallied 21.

“I was very pleased with our offensive effort, of course,” said Jacksits. “Morgan Sterner, I think she settled everybody in by getting hot early. We could rely on her to make the shots, and everybody settled in to their shots, so that helped a lot.”

Sterner scored 20 of her points in the first half, helping the K-Kids build a 50-36 lead at the intermission.

“I thought they had a phenomenal shooting night,” Gauronsky said of Northampton. “And I think we just ran out of gas.”

The Bears kept up in the first half, trailing 46-36 after a trey from Cameron Caffrey with 45 seconds left in the second quarter.

But each time PV would inch closer, the K-Kids would surge ahead, closing the period with a 4-0 spurt to take a 14-point lead into halftime.

A 13-0 run to open the third quarter blew the game open, a surge that started with a quick 3 from Sterner.

Caffrey led the Bears with 17 points. Alexa Clark added 14 points, while Brianna Clark recorded 12.

POINT PARTY … Pleasant Valley’s previous high for points allowed in a game this year was 53 in a win over Allen on Jan. 3.

ON TRACK … PV’s 67 points matched a season high, a total the Bears also hit in a win against Stroudsburg on Dec. 21. The team entered the contest averaging 60.1 points per game.

GETTING CLOSE … Sterner’s last basket not only gave her 30 points, but it also put the K-Kids at 90, making the century mark a very real possibility with nearly five minutes remaining in the game. But, with 4:48 left in the fourth quarter and leading 90-56, Jacksits pulled his starters, and Northampton scored just two points the rest of the way.

NORTHAMPTON

Kranzley 2-0-0-4, Gilliard 3-2-2-8, Sterner 10-5-6-30, Nemeth 0-0-0-0, Hockman 0-0-0-0, Rogers 9-1-2-21, Keenan 10-2-2-27, Waiters 0-0-0-0, G. Demchak 1-0-0-2, D. Demchak 0-0-0-0. TOTALS: 35-10-12-92.

PLEASANT VALLEY

R. Wagner 2-0-0-5, Caffrey 6-2-3-17, O’Neil 2-0-0-4, A. Wagner 2-0-2-5, B. Clark 5-1-3-12, A. Clark 6-1-2-14, Rosenberg 1-0-0-2, Schwenk 3-2-2-8. TOTALS: 27-6-14-67.

Northampton 24 26 27 15 - 92

Pleasant Vy. 17 19 13 18 - 67

Three-pointers: Northampton - Sterner 5, Keenan 5, Rogers 2; Pleasant Valley - Caffrey 3, R. Wagner 1, A. Wagner 1, B. Clark 1, A. Clark 1.