It’s the moment that Lynn English and head coach Peter Holey have been preparing for since the morning after the Bulldogs’ 49-7 loss to Lynn Classical on Thanksgiving Day last season.It also is a place that is nothing new for the Gloucester football program, the defending Division 2A Super Bowl champion.On Friday night (7) at Newell Stadium in Gloucester, the Bulldogs and Fishermen will meet with nothing less than the Northeastern Conference’s North Division championship on the line.Click here for a photo gallery from a recent English practice.The winner Friday will control its own destiny in the season’s final two games, needing only one win to claim the crown. And for Holey, it’s exactly what his players have been preparing for.”This is what these kids deserve,” Holey said. “This group had a bad taste in their mouth after Thanksgiving and they’ve worked hard and are where they should be. Now we have to take advantage of it.”But the task will be by no means easy on Friday. The Fishermen (7-1, 3-0 NEC North) come in on a three-game winning streak and off a 49-0 win over Classical that saw the team play its best game of the season in the eyes of coach Paul Ingram.”We really improved last week,” Ingram said. “We played good on both sides of the ball.”The veteran Gloucester coach also has been impressed with how English (5-2, 2-0 NEC North) has improved this season.”I saw them earlier in the season and they have gotten better over the year. And that doesn’t happen with some teams,” Ingram said. “Their passing game is not to the level of Swampscott, but their quarterback (Jesse Fowler) makes good decisions and they have athletes that can catch the ball.”Fowler took a big step forward in his maturation process last week, hitting on 16 of 21 passes for 244 yards and three touchdowns. On the season, the senior is 68 of 133 for 955 yards and 10 touchdowns.Fowler also is the Bulldogs’ leading rusher with 535 yards and three touchdowns. Justin Young’s 23 catches lead the English receiving corps, which has had five different players catch touchdown passes.”I think that last week really gave Jesse confidence in his ability to throw,” Holey said. “(Offensive coordinator) Brian (Vaughan) has worked hard with him, and hopefully it will pay off on Friday.”English will be without the services of Julio Arzu for a second straight week. Arzu, English’s second-leading rusher with 504 yards, was injured against Salem and sat out the win over Revere last week.But with Arzu out, Kyle Smith and Jermaine Patterson (5 TD) have stepped to the forefront to help lead the English running game.”We have the weapons and when someone goes out, it gives other people an opportunity to shine and Kyle took advantage of his chance with Julio out,” Holey said.Gloucester isn’t without weapons of its own. The Fishermen have had nine different people score touchdowns this season in an offense that is averaging 36.3 points per game.”To be honest, it doesn’t seem to matter who we put in; we’ve been able to move the ball,” Ingram said. “And it adds to the competition in practice, and a lot of times, teams don’t have that.”Wingback Ross Carlson (517 yards, 6 TD) and fullback Conor Ressel (389 yards, 10 TD) have led the offense for most of the season. But that unit got a boost with the return of a healthy Taylor Burbine, who burned the Rams for three touchdowns last week.”Their offense is a handful,” Holey said. “They are physical and we have to match that.”Across the way, Ingram knows that his team’s powerful offense will have to be on its game to keep English’s high-powered spread attack off the field.”We’ll see if we can control them. We need to slow down the game and have long, sustained drives,” Ingram said. “That’s what we’ve done all season and what we’re good at.”In the end, Holey hopes that his team will go out and enjoy the moment they’ve worked so hard for.”I told the kids (Wednesday) to just go out and have fun,” Holey said. “They’ve put all the work in ? They kn