Nashua North's Amani Santos heads the ball away from Nashua South's Bryce King (11) during Tuesday's Battle of the Bridge at Stellos Stadium. (Telegraph photo by TOM KING)

NASHUA – Was it a win? Was it a loss? How should Tuesday’s 2-2 boys soccer Battle of the Bridge between Nashua High School North and South at Stellos Stadium be described?

In one word, frustrating.

The Titans couldn’t be blamed for feeling like it was a defeat, because Nashua South’s Revin Olsen’s header off a ball to the box by teammate Leonel Lopez inside of two minutes to play produced the game-tying goal. And that, with overtime no longer being played in the regular season, was how it finished.

Olsen did not have that winning feeling.

“No, to be honest, no,” he said. “We should have beat them, we had the possession the entire time, it just didn’t go our way.”

Sort of.

“We’ve got a lot of work to do, but they don’t give up, they keep pushing,” South coach Tom Bellen said. “We get forward, Revin’s a center back, going up and scoring a goal with two minutes left in the game. … We had that play all game, just couldn’t finish it.

“I told them I don’t want a tie, we wanted to push forward. … We’re disappointed, we think we’re capable of better.”

Both teams really needed a win. North went in 2-4-1, and South, with two ties and two 1-0 losses, is winless in its last four.

“You never want to end in a tie,” North coach Jeremy Zelanes said. “The way both teams were playing, it looked like it was heading in that direction. We couldn’t get possession at the end of the game like we needed to, and it was our game to lose at that point. … It was just a matter of time before they scored.”

The Panthers grabbed a lead 11 minutes in on a Lopez header off a Steve Long corner kick. But North got the equalizer on a Junior Reyes goal off a feed from David Pereira with just over two minutes left in the first half. Then the Titans came out on fire in the second half, missing a couple of big chances – South’s Nirav Chenji rescued keeper Ethan Long (six saves) by booting a ball off the goal line – before Pereira buried one past Long on a give-and-go for a 2-1 Titans 3:53 in.

“In the second half, we came out with a lot more energy,” Zelanes said. “I think we were trying to leave it all on the table. After we got that goal, we definitely let up … The back line for South (now 3-3-2) played their hearts out today.”

And one of those players, Olsen, moved down the field at the end and made a play that North keeper Tyler Byrne, who was surviving under siege with 10 saves, just couldn’t reach.

“I just knew I had to play mad, that’s how I play my best,” Olsen said. “That header, I was just going all in for it. To be honest, I thought he was going to shoot it, but once I saw that pass, I knew I had to go up for it.”

“They played 80 minutes of soccer today, we didn’t, we let up at the end,” Zelanes said. “I don’t look at it as a loss, I look at it as a way to kind of build up.”