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Colin Dorgan battled through misery to earn his Rhode Island boys high school hockey team a triumph Wednesday night.
Dorgan put the Blackstone Valley schools in the Division II championship game when he scored the game-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 the game-winning goal on March 11, 2026. (Louis Walker III/Special to the Providence Journal-USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)
“Greatest moment of my life,” he told WPRI-TV after the game.
He helped the team immensely throughout 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 most important thing for us after the tragedy was to keep them together as a family,” Blackstone Valley coach Chris Librizzi told WPRI-TV. “I was with [Colin] every day his sister and we as a group came together for 14 days straight. And I think that made a difference. The bonds this team has built every day over the past two weeks have been nothing short of superior. »
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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 scheduled for March 18 in Providence.
It was only last month that a gunman, identified by police as Robert Dorgan, fatally shot his ex-wife, Rhonda Dorgan, at Dennis M. Lynch Arena in Pawtucket. His son Aidan Dorgan and his father, Gerald Dorgan, were also fatally injured in the shooting.
The shooter, who identified as transgender, also went by the names Roberta Esposito and Roberta Dorgano, authorities said, adding that the gunman died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Blackstone Valley boys hockey’s Colin Dorgan helps the team defeat 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, Robert and Rhonda’s son, was playing on the ice when the shooting occurred.
