Tuesday thoughts

Immaculata isn't the only school in Somerville with great numbers coming out for its football team.

Somerville High head coach Greg Arakelian told me a couple of weeks ago that the Pioneers would have to cut players for the first time in his 13 years with the program. He told me that 84 youngsters signed up for the team, but the program couldn't afford carrying all of them.

Arakelian did have to make the cuts.

"It's probably the toughest thing I have ever had to do as a coach," he said. "We had some good kids who had trained during the summer, who really put a lot into it and we had to cut them. We wanted to be as thorough as possible. We didn't want to cheat the kids."

Arakelian, in his first year as head coach after serving as former coach Kevin Carty's line coach for 12 years, said the Pioneers are filming every practice, then analyzing them the same day.

Somerville was scheduled to play host to Warren Hills Tuesday in a scrimmage, but because of the rain the scrimmage has been shifted to Warren Hills Wednesday.

If Brooks Field is the worst in the Skyland Conference, Warren Hills' can't be too far behind.