Nashua South-Pelham's Chase Stuart and North-Souhegan's Body Hoaglund look to move during Wednesday night's Battle of the Bridge at Conway Arena. (Telegraph photo by TOM KING)

NASHUA – The outcome was secondary following a game-ending injury to North-Souhegan freshman goalie Dylan O’Neil, but the Nashua High School South-Pelham Kings did end up wth a 4-1 win in the Battle of the Bridge Wednesday night at Conway Arena.

The game was ended with 13.5 seconds left after O’Neil suffered an apparent head injury after a collision on the Kings forward Brendan Skelley’s power play goal – the fourth power play goal of the period for the winners.

The win puts the Kings at 2-5 while North-Souhegan dropped to 0-10. The Saber-Titans had grabbed a 1-0 lead in the second period on Conor Prunier’s power play goal at 5:03, assisted by Callen Cullity and Christian Miller. An apparent game-tying goal by the Kings late in the period was disallowed due to the whistle having been blown.

They took that lead into the second intermission, but five penalties did the Saber-Titans in.

Brendan Doughty had two of the Kings power play goals in the final period, one unassisted and his first one, the game-tying goal at 2:61, assisted by Skelley.

Andrew Byrne had the go-ahead goal at 9:49. The final two goals were scored with 23 and 13.5 ticks left.

South-Pelham goalie Noah Soule had 12 saves. North-Souhegan hosts Merrimack-Hollis Brookline-Derryfield on Saturday while South-Pelham is at Alvirne-Milford, both inter-divisional games.

Last night’s game was Military Appreciation Night with the teams wearing special uniforms. New Hampshire Governor Kelly Ayotte was on hand for pre-game festivities and dropped the ceremonial puck.

As for the Battle of the Bridge, South leads North 5-2 with sub-varsity and Co-Ed Unified basketball set for today at South.

SOUHEGAN STILL WORKING ON CO-0P OPTIONS

Souhegan Athletic Director Kelli Braley said she’s still talking with schools about potential cooperative partnerships for Sabers boys hockey and won’t have a proposal yet to present to the Amherst school board.

“We’re still in discussions,” Braley said. Nashua is looking to partner North with South for next year, and has until near the end of February to finalize any agreement so Nashua and Souhegan can forward the paperwork to the NHIAA — not only for boys hockey, but for the proposed Souhegan-North-South girls co-op.