When Frisco's combined team arrived at this year's High School Hockey Division II National Championships, they knew they could compete for the title after bowing out in the quarterfinals last year.

But it still arrived with a stigma coming from a non-traditional hockey market and a state that had never won a national championship before.

"I think the people in Texas maybe know the level of skill set that we had," Frisco coach Ryan McLean said. "I don't think the people at this tournament may have."

Frisco did much more than compete. It went undefeated en route to producing the state's first ever high school hockey national championship.

Facing Missoula, Montana, in the Division II title game on Monday morning, Frisco scored three goals in a six-minute span in the second period on its way to a 5-0 victory.

It also beat defending champion Mitchell, Florida, in the semifinals.

"You have to win six hockey games to win a deal like this so there's a lot of highs and lows and variables," McLean said. "But the guys kind of stuck with it all week and things went the way that we hoped they did."

Forward Jacob Plattner (five goals, four assists ) and defenseman Luke Lenhardt (one goal, eight assists), tied for the team lead in scoring in the tournament. But it was Chase Nies who led the way in the title game, scoring two goals and registering one assist.

Sullivan Sheahan combined with Lenhardt to play close to 80 percent of every game, according to McLean.

Goaltender James Gillian stopped all 27 shots in the championship game.