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Colin Dorgan battled through adversity to achieve triumph for his Rhode Island boys high school hockey team Wednesday night.
Dorgan put Blackstone Valley Schools into the Division II championship game when he scored the winning goal in double overtime against Portsmouth. The team won the match 3-2.
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Colin Dorgan (17), Blackstone Valley boys hockey, scores game-winning goal on March 11, 2026. (Louis Walker III/Special to The Providence Journal-USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)
“The biggest moment of my life,” he told WPRI-TV after the game.
He has helped the team tremendously through the playoffs. He scored two goals in the final game of a best-of-three quarterfinal series earlier in the tournament, according to ESPN.
“The biggest thing for us after the tragedy happened was keeping them together as a family,” Blackstone Valley coach Chris Librizzi told WPRI-TV. “I was in [Colin] every single day and his sister and we as a group also met for 14 days straight. And I think it made a difference. The bonding that this team has gone through every day for the last two weeks has been nothing short of superior.”
HOCKEY RINK SHOOTING MYSTERIOUSLY WARNED TO GO BERSERK IX POST DAY BEFORE ATTACK
Blackstone Valley boys hockey celebrates a double overtime victory on March 11, 2026. (Louis Walker III/Special to The Providence Journal-USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)
The championship game is set for March 18 in Providence.
It was only last month when a shooter, identified by police as Robert Dorgan, fatally shot his ex-wife, Rhonda Dorgan, at the Dennis M. Lynch Arena in Pawtucket. His son Aidan Dorgan and father, Gerald Dorgan, were also fatally wounded in the shooting.
The shooter, who was identified as transgender, also went by the names Roberta Esposito and Roberta Dorgano, authorities said, adding that the shooter died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Colin Dorgan, Blackstone Valley boys hockey helps the team win over Portsmouth, 3-2, in double overtime on March 11, 2026. (Louis Walker III/Special to The Providence Journal-USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)
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Colin Dorgan, son of Robert and Rhonda, was playing on the ice when the shooting occurred.
