ORANGE — You could see it on their faces before the game and during warm-ups, just a quiet confidence that there was was no way the Bishop Amat boys soccer team was leaving El Modena High School without the prize it had waited so many years to get its hands on.

And you could feel the relief and emotions come pouring out when Bishop Amat’s Noah Guillen scored on a breakaway in the final minute to provide the exclamation point on the Lancers’ 3-1 victory over Sultana to claim the CIF Southern Section Division 1 championship.

For many years soccer at Bishop Amat was all about the girls team, which has won two championships. But finally, its boys soccer team climbed the mountain top, too, winning its first title.

“Making history is amazing,” Bishop Amat coach Steve Jimenez, who has been there five years, said. “When I came to Amat, everybody knew soccer because of the girls and for these boys to do what they did today and throughout the season was amazing. They deserve it. Amat national deserves it, I just can’t put it all into words.”

It wasn’t easy. Sultana (19-4-1) had a strong backline that for much of the game neutralized what Amat does best, scoring on set pieces through the air or long throw ins.

It was tied 0-0 at half and Sultana looked content to sit back and counter, hoping to frustrate Amat as long as it could.

But finally, Amat broke through when Guillen slotted a pass across the middle for Matthew Ibarra, who one-touched a redirected masterpiece to the right corner for a 1-0 lead in the 49th minute.

“Throughout the whole game we had a lot of chances, we just couldn’t find it,” Ibarra said. “In the second half we knew it was going to come, it was just a matter of when. And as soon as it did we knew it (championship) was ours.”

Jimenez knew scoring first was a game changer.

“Huge goal, a lot of credit to Sultana, they had a game plan, they obviously watched some film,” Jimenez said. “They were sitting in, playing the counter, but our boys just don’t give up. They have that Amat grit that I haven’t seen before. We just kept going until we put one away, and that loosened things up a bit.”

It looked like it was over when Ibarra’s 20-yard free kick was saved by Sultana goalkeeper Hayden Millard off the crossbar, dropping straight to Guillen, who headed it home for a 2-0 lead in the 70th minute.

But Amat would give up a penalty kick with five minutes left, and Dave Melendez buried it for Sultana to cut the lead in half.

There were some nervous moments in the final minutes, but they all disappeared with Guillen’s goal in the final minute.

“There was no pressure, felt calm and collected, I’ve played in big games before,” said Guillen, who scored twice and dedicated the goals to his grandmother. “Everything just went perfectly.”