When South Elgin’s Pelon Munoz is on the soccer field, there’s an air of inevitability.

Whenever the ball winds up in the senior forward’s orbit, it feels like only a matter of time before he takes over a game or he sets up another one of his relentless teammates to do the same.

That’s how he wants the Storm to play.

“I think we can — and we want to,” Munoz said. “I feel like with the pressure we put on teams they’re either going to make a mistake or start going crazy.

“I feel like if anything gets in our way, we’ll just smash it.”

That’s exactly how Saturday’s 2-1 win over the host Red Raiders in the Class 3A Huntley Sectional championship game went. South Elgin trailed 1-0 in the first half but kept pushing.

Late in the second half, the dam finally broke. Maximus Fowler found Momo Gonzalez for the equalizer with 11:55 left. Then, the inevitable happened three minutes later. Joaquin Vega slid a pass to Munoz, who rifled in the game-winner with 8:51 to go for the Storm (19-3-4).

South Elgin’s second straight sectional title sends them back to the Barrington Supersectional at 6 p.m. Tuesday against Glenbrook South (19-4-1), a shootout winner over Hersey.

Huntley (17-3-2) took advantage of a defensive breakdown with 2:33 left in the first half to start the scoring Saturday. Cody Hammer found Tyler Murray for that goal. Huntley only had three other shots on goal, however.

“They scored on us, but fortunately for us, we’re us,” South Elgin coach Jerzy Skowron said. “The floodgates opened. We broke their will and we just kind of beat them down for 80 minutes. That’s who we are.”

Gonzalez made a furious run from the back end into the offensive zone to make himself available for the game-tying goal.

“We just kept pushing,” Gonzalez said. “I wasn’t going to stop. I wasn’t going to lose this game. I was going to give everything. I think no team can handle us for 80 minutes.

“We’re going to keep going and going and we’re going to get through. I’ve tried to put it on my teammates like, ‘We’re not going to lose. We’re here to win.’”

After that goal, Skowron made a little tweak. And it paid off almost immediately.

“We got that first one and I was like, ‘All right, let’s formation change here really quick,’” Skowron said. “One of my coaches came over and asked, ‘Why did you do that?’ Then we scored again. That’s why.

“We’ve been throwing a bunch of stuff at them all year. You could give them a smashed piece of paper and they’ll make a paper airplane out of it. This is the most resilient team I’ve ever coached.”

The Storm was relentless in the second half with 10 shots on goal. Five came off the foot of Munoz before he finally broke through.

“I felt like we were knocking really hard,” Munoz said. “They ended up going crazy and we scored two.”

Skowron made sure Munoz was front and center in the second half. It paid off with his 32nd goal of the season.

“That first half we tried something new with him,” Skowron said. “He was kind of hiding behind the defense, seeing if he could manipulate something. I think he did a little too much of that.

“At halftime, we put him more on the ball and all of a sudden it kind of opened up their eyes like, ‘Now he’s in front of us. What do we do?’ That completely changed the game.”

Munoz, meanwhile, is ready to make history Tuesday.

“I feel like we need to break the Barrington curse,” Munoz said. “We’re coming for it.”