Tyler Adamczyk of Westlake is expected to...

Tyler Adamczyk of Westlake is expected to rejoin the Warrior basketball team on Wednesday.

Adamczyk, who has accepted a baseball scholarship to California, had said he would bypass this basketball season so he could focus on baseball.

He averaged a team-high 18.4 points and 7.8 rebounds last season before missing the final six games with mononucleosis.

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The Agoura boys’ team won as many games last week as it did last season, but first-year Coach Joe Riccio says he’s not surprised with the 4-0 start.

“We’ve been doing this all summer,” Riccio said. “I know plenty of people picked us to finish sixth or seventh in the Marmonte League, but I’m not surprised at what we’re doing.”

Last season, Agoura was 4-21 and finished last in the seven-team Marmonte League with a 2-10 record. But the Chargers won the Burbank-Hoover tournament title and defeated Oak Park, 71-52, in a nonleague game on Saturday with the help of a full-court press.

“We’ve got 12 kids who are playing as hard as they can,” Riccio said. “We press for 32 minutes a game and we don’t let up.”

Riccio, the athletic director at Santa Paula from 1990-2000, hadn’t coached high school basketball since the 1994-95 season. Yet he was convinced Agoura could be successful this season.

“I had people telling me not to expect much out of this kid or that kid,” Riccio said. “But I haven’t had any problems. These guys have bought into the system.”

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A lot can happen until the start of Marmonte League play on Jan. 3, but Riccio is already touting Agoura as a league-title contender.

“I think everyone needs to watch out for us,” Riccio said. “I know everyone is talking about Simi Valley, Thousand Oaks and Westlake, and I have a lot of respect for those programs. But we’re a good team. I don’t think there’s a team in Ventura County that has as much depth as us.”