Bedford keeper Zoe Santos grabs the ball away from a sliding Bishop Guertin's Brooke Paquette during Wednesday night's 0-0 tie at Stellos Stadium. (Telegraph photo by TOM KING

NASHUA – Hollywood is already preparing for a sequel, as long as the actresses can all make it back for production.

That would be Bishop Guertin vs. Bedford High School Girls Soccer II, and if it happens, it wouldn’t be until the Division I state finals in Exeter on Sunday, Nov. 7.

Anybody who witnessed BG-Bedford I, a 0-0 double overtime final at Stellos Stadium on Wednesday night, will be hoping the two teams will make it through the gauntlet of the tournament to get there.

Guertin (14-1-1) will play one less round than everyone else, as the Cards secured the top seed in Division I with the tie. Bedford finishes the regular season 13-1-2.

“Bedford is one of our good rivals so we knew we had to come out and play our hardest,” Guertin wing Brooke Paquette said. “We had to go for everything and give it our best. We hope we see them again.”

“Hopefully, we’ll see how the football gods work,” Guertin coach Winston Haughton said. “Pinkerton (the Cards’ lone loss), Bedford, I expect to see them all again.”

“These last two weeks of the season have been up and down for all the top four teams,” Bedford coach Michelle Winning said. “You have to be ready for everyone on every day. You can’t look forward. That’s probably the hardest part,to not these guys to look ahead. But it’s a great way to end the (regular) season.”

Bedford controlled the first half despite Guertin having three corner kicks. The Cardinals, who had a road trip to Hanover on Tuesday, got their second wind for the second half and had more push. The two overtimes were fairly even.

“We both had our chances,” Winning said. “They just knocked the ball around in the second half and we were a little disorganized. The overtime just came down to matching energy for both of us. It went back and forth.”

Guertin keeper Erin Morris had seven saves, but none was better than her double save on on boot by Bedford’s Abby Forrester late in the second half, as she tipped the ball up in the air and knocked it away again before it could go in. Or Bedford keeper Zoe Santos’ save on Paquette in OT. Or free kicks by Guertin’s Alyson Guerette and Emily Neily that just sailed high and/or wide.

“They (Bedford) were very stubborn in the back,” Haughton said. “I just take from it that we need to be a little bit sharper, need to move the ball quicker. We had a game away (Tuesday) at Hanover, so that zapped us at the end as well. … We did as much as we could do, you know?

“We created (chances) on a regular beat. But Bedford had their key moments on defense and they also had their looks at goal. It was a balanced game, and entertaining for the spectators I’m sure.”

And for the coach?

“Entertaining too,” he said with a chuckle. “But at the end, we’ll just settle for the draw.”

And the top seed that goes with it.

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