Nashua South's Diego Cabrera tries to strip the ball away from Nashua North back Luke Peters as Panther Cole Patno closes in during Friday night's Battle of the Bridge at Stellos Stadium. (Telegraph photo by TOM KING)

The Battle of the Bridge is over, and now it’s time to look at the ripple effects.

And mainly those ripples move in the direction of this Friday night’s game between Nashua High School North and Bishop Guertin at Stellos Stadium.

For the Titans, it’s basically a must win if they want to try to salvage anything out of their season. They’re 0-4 after Friday night’s 41-10 loss to arch-rival Nashua South, and would basically need to win out to have any chance at the postseason. The only game they would be a decided underdog in would be at Londonderry on Oct. 18.

For Guertin (1-2 Division I, 2-2 overall, the Cards had their offense in gear in a non-league game at North Middlesex in Townsend, Mass. on Saturday. But a loss Friday and the Cards are also in must win territory for the final month.

Those are big ripples.

For North coach Chad Zibolis, the focus on what’s ahead, a restart, if you will.

“Just like we started off the season,” he said after Friday’s loss. “The same way. You keep chugging away. You practice the same way we’ve practiced, and we practice hard. We just keep going, keep chugging way, that’s the way it is. That’s how seasons. go. We’ll keep playing football. Our kids will keep playing football. If we can put four quarters together, we’re going to be OK. That’s what we need, we need to put four quarters together.”

Guertin coach Anthony Nalen calls North “the best 0-4 team in the state.”

“Obviously, any game we went to win,” Nalen said. “It doesn’t matter if you’re playing it out-of-state, in a parking lot, doesn’t matter, we want to win.

“I thought that we wanted to play to the standard we preached all year. At times we did, at times we didn’t today. That infuriates me, because I felt it we just executed, the outcome would’ve been a little more different (as in more one-sided). … If you don’t play to the standard with a team like North, you’ll be in big trouble.”

As for 4-0 South, their ripple is just an increased confidence as, well, teams have now taken notice. As Nalen, whose Cards fell 21-15 in OT to South in the season opener recently said of the Panthers, “They’re reeeeally good.”

And Zibolis says the same thing.

“They’re a good football team,” he said. “Good for them, they’ve stuck it out, they’ve had some tough years, and good for them. They’ve worked hard at it.”

“We tell the kids all the time, ‘Let’s not be victims of our own success,'” said Panthers coach Scott Knight, who takes his team to Gill Stadium Saturday for a 1 p.m. tilt vs. 0-4 Manchester Central. “Let’s just keep grinding and working hard. We’re 0-0. Yeah, we’re 4-0, but we’re going to approach Central like we would (North) or anybody else.”

Alvirne, meanwhile, has to recover from its first loss, but the circumstances couldn’t be tougher: at a Londonderry team scorned, as the 2-1 (2-2 overall) Lancers lost to Pinkerton for the first time in eight meetings on Saturday.

And Merrrimack’s Sahil Mujuwar continues to have a fine senior season at QB, a running and throwing threat. Bedford will be a supreme road test on Friday.

DIVISION II: FIENGO ON FIRE

Speaking of really good, Souhegan quarterback Michael Fiengo is just red hot. He’s found the end zone with his feet or arm in every game, and the Sabers once again have one of the best offenses around. They’ll be Hanover on Friday night, then have a rivalry game at Milford the following week before their back-to-back supreme challenges at home vs. Plymouth and Pelham.

Speaking of the Pythons, Hollis Brookline may have lost big against them Friday, but they still had a player perform well in the loss. Back Sam Bruneau, who head coach Milt Robinson was excited about adding to his team in the preseason, rushed for 178 yards and two TDs. Not a bad night’s work, especially as the Cavs keep plugging away to try to get a win. Keep an eye on that Oct. 18 home game vs. Pembroke (0-4).

South isn’t the only local team in Manchester on Saturday as Milford tries to right the ship at Manchester West, a 2 p.m. start.

BREAKFAST AGAIN WITH COUGARS

In Division III, 4-0 Campbell is back to its Saturday morning comfort zone at home this week after its once-a-year home night game, a win over Somersworth. Gilford looked like it could possibly pose a threat, but did fall to 2-2 after losing 14-6 at home to Inter-Lakes, a team that the Cougars blistered 34-12 on the road. But you never know.