POLAND — First, the unprecedented.

Poland football has opened the season with the most prolific stretch in school history, scoring 112 points in three games. One-sided wins over Lake Region and Freeport have been sandwiched around a 29-point comeback that ended in a last-second loss at Cape Elizabeth.

And now, the unlikely.

The Knights have accumulated those yards and points — 16 touchdowns in all — without any offensive player chalking up multiple scores in a single game.

Ask every team in the state, and they’ll tell you that in some sense of the word, they want to be balanced. Poland is taking it to a delicious extreme.

“Every game, I feel like everybody deserves a touchdown, even our linemen,” said quarterback Adam Mocciola, who has thrown for three, rushed for two and returned an interception for another.

“We have a play for everybody,” added two-time scorer Nick Cote. “Our plays all look kind of the same.”

Patrick Jacques, Will Bernier, Robbie Porter, Kaleb Irazzary and John Fossett also have experienced “six-cess” early in the season. Jacques and Porter have punched it in each game.

One name for Poland’s offense, inspired by the one run at the U.S. Naval Academy, is triple option. In reality, the Knights’ opponents (defending Class C champion Leavitt comes to town Friday night) must prepare for at least twice that many.

“We’ve been hoping for this kind of balance. I had hoped that it would emerge last year. We just never really got there,” Poland coach Ted Tibbetts. “This year we’ve been pretty happy with some physical fullback play in the middle, hard-running quarterbacks off tackle and some guys that are fast on the perimeter. Our players haven’t really surprised us. We’ve believed in them all along. We’re happy for them to see all the work they’ve put in starting to pay off.”

Although the optical illusion of misdirection plays a significant role in Poland’s attack, there’s also no secret that senior all-conference lineman Tony Benedict clears many of the lanes.

“All four years I’ve been here, this is the most I’ve felt like we’ve been a team,” Benedict said. “We’re all finally starting to click. It’s going to be a good season, better than any other season we’ve had.”

Mocciola has taken the next step in his second year as starting quarterback, sharing time with Jacques.

He launched the 42-0 win at Lake Region with a 15-yard TD run and a 38-yard scoring toss to Bernier.

Down 29-0 at Cape, Mocciola ignited the rally with an 80-yard ramble. Bernier (43), Porter (20) and Jacques (38) followed suit from long range.

“All of us are fast, even our linemen. (Benedict) plants people,” Mocciola said.

Players and coaches credit assistant coach Rick Kramer’s strength and conditioning program for allowing the Knights to win battles at the line of scrimmage that were lost in previous seasons.

Fossett, a tight end, and Benedict are two of the few players on the roster standing taller than six feet.

“Last season a lot of us started, sophomore and junior year, so we thought it was going to be our best year. It didn’t end up being that great of a year. It put a bad taste in our mouth. We worked hard all summer. It showed in 7-on-7 and it’s showing now,” Cote said. “We’ve all put on a lot of muscle. We’ve all gotten a lot faster. Coach preached it all offseason. Coach Kramer hooked us up with some great programs, and that’s just made a world of difference.”

It’s the 12th year of Poland football. The Knights’ 4-4 mark in Tibbetts’ first season of 2011 was their only flirtation with the .500 threshold to date.

Back-to-back games against Leavitt and Spruce Mountain could provide a jolt back to reality, but the Knights believe those benchmark dates instead will show they’re for real.

“This whole crew has been extremely driven. I know we can all say that winning is the biggest motivation. Winning a couple of games just drives us to win more,” Bernier said. “Losing never feels good, whether you get stomped or lose a tight game. Winning feels great, period.”

Mocciola said that Poland’s 2014 Class B West title in boys’ basketball whetted the Knights’ appetite to reach the state gridiron game, too.

That quest started with modest goals. A first-ever winning season. Finishing in the top half of the 10-team Class C division of the Campbell Conference.

One week at a time, one touchdown at a time, one new contributor at a time, Poland is driving in that direction.

“On one hand, I’m pleasantly surprised that we’ve been so explosive on offense when we have struggled at times in the past. It’s certainly made the games exciting for us,” Tibbetts said. “We know that we need to continuously improve over the next four weeks in order to meet our goals, so we are focused on getting a little better, every day, every week. We know that if keep our focus on that, then the goals will take care of themselves.”