Winnacunnet's Maddy Kontos (1) heads the ball backwards against Bishop Guertin's Kareena Sondhi as Zoe Horton-Sousa (3) watches the ball during Saturday's Division I clash at Stellos Stadium. (Telegraph photo by TOM KING)

NASHUA – Sometimes a tie can feel like a win or a loss.

Now, neither Bishop Guertin High School girls soccer coach Chris Millett or Winnacunet mentor Nick O’Brien would go that far, but it’s hard to think the Cards and Warriors left Saturday’s 2-2 tie at Stellos Stadium feeling the same.

That’s because the Warriors rallied from a 2-0 deficit in the final 17 minutes in a battle of unbeatens. So if you’re looking at it from the BG standpoint, it may have been the one that got away when the Warriors’ Libby Maloney got the equalizer with about three minutes left in the contest off a free kick by Taylor Burness.

“I would say overall we played really really well,” Millett said. “Overall, I’m proud of our girls, they played a lot of minutes. We were trying to pump in one more, but we ran out of gas. Just turn the page and move on to the next one. Of course you don’t want to give up a lead but they’re (the Warriors) a very, very good team, they went to the state championship (game) last year.”

“This was a grind-it-out,” O’Brien said, his team missing four regulars due to injury. “The most impressive thing is when you’re down 2-0, you could easily pack it in against a really good BG team. To get those two goals, hats off to this group, and hats off to BG too.”

Neither team had allowed a goal this year, Guertin coming in at 4-0 and the Warriors 4-0-1. But BG struck first on Caroline Goulet’s header off an Emerson Brown corner kick nearly 10 minutes in.

They made it 2-0 in the second half, Zoe Horton-Sousa converting a Goulet kick past Warriors netminder Julianne Banks (six stops).

But the door was opened for the Warriors when a penalty area foul at 63:30 gave Winnacunnet’s Sophia Guimaraes a penalty kick, which she converted. Ironically she had tried one to the right but the whistle to start hadn’t been blown, and she switched to the left on the restart, beating Cards busy keeper Oliva Baker (nine saves), who was leaning the other way.

That made it 2-1, and things got tighter. It could be a great battle if they see each other again.

“We know where we are, we’ll compete, and hopefully we’ll get lucky in the tournament,” Millett said.

And remember, BG, which lost to North on penalty kicks in the quarterfinals, knows more than anyone that in the tournament, there are no ties.