Pelon Munoz wasn’t sure he could come back in for South Elgin.

After taking a foul and scoring on a penalty with 30 seconds left in the first half of the Class 3A South Elgin sectional final, the junior striker gingerly limped off the pitch after getting a cramp in his right thigh.

But when St. Charles North equalized the game with four minutes remaining in regulation, he knew he had to get back out there.

“I couldn’t really move it at first,” Munoz said. “But after they tied it up, I told coach I was going back in, I felt like I was going to score.”

Lucky for the Storm, Munoz’s intuition was spot on.

The junior scored four minutes into the second overtime, helping the third-seeded Storm to a 3-2 victory over the eighth-seeded North Stars on Saturday to secure their first sectional

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