Somerville Immaculata game

The Immaculata-Somerville football game gave us a wild ride last Friday night. More than 4,500 turned out at Brooks Field in Somerville to see Immaculata pull out a 21-14 victory, its second in the re-born series. And we almost had an overtime game. Senior Mason Robinson returned a kickoff 96 yards for an apparent touchdown before it was wiped out because of a holding call. Immaculata had just taken the lead on A.J. Albert's 4-yard run. Robinson, headed to play at a Division I school, nearly carried Somerville back into the game. Afterwards, I found Robinson to be very pragmatic about the game and its result. He was very calm when describing his feelings about penalty. It was a real lesson for everybody to take from a teenager, who understood how the game works. It was too bad that Immaculata sophomore Theo Riddick had to leave the game with what was reported as a concussion. He had 73 yards on eight carries in the first quarter before leaving while tackling Robinson on the Somerville side of the field. His status is game-to-game.