Interboro’s Dom Salomone, left, high-fives teammate Jayden Diawara after Salomone hit a 3-pointer in the second quarter Tuesday against Chichester. (Pete Bannan – MediaNews Group)
By Matthew DeGeorge
It hasn’t been the easiest of decades around Interboro’s boys basketball program. That’s the only conclusion to draw from four winless seasons and three one-win campaigns in the last nine seasons.
But this year, the Bucs have four wins on the ledger before the season enters its final month. They are doing it with a renewed confidence under coach Conrad Kirkaldy.
Among those wins is a 74-64 decision over Academy Park. It’s just the third Del Val win in the last 10 seasons for the Bucs, and it has brought self-belief to a group that has struggled through plenty.
“It’s really important,” senior forward Sean Thomas said Tuesday after a loss at Chichester. “If we don’t play with that mentality, we’re not going to do good. We try to bring ourselves up to get more wins.”
Interboro started the season 3-2, with wins over (an albeit shorthanded) Upper Darby, Kennett and Oxford. It kept within 12 points of Rustin and Boyertown and played Chichester to a two-point loss at home.
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