RI hockey player whose family members were killed by trans shooter helps team to championship

Colin Dorgan stepped up for his Rhode Island precocious schoolhouse crystal hockey squad erstwhile again, and this clip it came successful the championship.

Dorgan scored the game-tying extremity for Blackstone Valley Schools with little than a infinitesimal near successful the 3rd play against Lincoln High School successful the Division 2 boys’ authorities championship. It led to 4 nerve-racking overtime periods earlier Blackstone yet won the game, 3-2, and secured the championship.

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Colin Dorgan scores the game-tying extremity for Blackstone Valley Schools connected March 19, 2026. (Eric Rueb/Providence Journal / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)

He helped get Blackstone Valley to the title crippled itself past week erstwhile helium scored the game-winning extremity successful treble overtime.

The infinitesimal connected Wednesday came weeks aft a tragic shooting occurred during 1 of his games successful Rhode Island. A shooter identified by constabulary arsenic Robert Dorgan, fatally changeable his ex-wife, Rhonda Dorgan, astatine the Dennis M. Lynch Arena successful Pawtucket. His lad Aidan Dorgan and father, Gerald Dorgan, were besides fatally wounded successful the shooting.

The shooter, who identified arsenic transgender, besides went by the names Roberta Esposito and Roberta Dorgano, authorities said, adding the shooter died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Dorgan said aft the title that helium was tense to return, but helium had immense enactment from family, friends and teammates to get him disconnected the sofa and backmost onto the ice.

"Throughout each of the playoffs, adjacent this crippled and the overtimes, I genuinely felt it successful my bosom and my psyche that they're inactive with me," Dorgan said. "I emotion them truthful much."

Colin Dorgan celebrates with the title plaque connected March 18, 2026. (Eric Rueb/Providence Journal / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)

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Blackstone Valley caput manager Chris Librizzi was affectional earlier the crippled started.

"It's conscionable a crippled for Lincoln High School and for everybody that's coming here, but for america who lived done that shooting? It's our lives. It's a calamity we each went done and are inactive healing from it," helium said.

Librizzi gave the squad the enactment of not returning aft the shooting and encouraged anyone who made the prime to measurement distant from the squad to inactive amusement up connected the seat oregon successful the stands.

Every subordinate came back.

"I sent Colin a substance saying, ‘Bud, playoffs are this Friday night, it’s your call," Librizzi said. "He didn't respond each day, but astatine astir 9 o'clock astatine night, helium sent maine a substance saying, 'Coach I'll spot you time astatine practice.'"

Dorgan credited his sister, Ava, with helping him propulsion done the misery.

Colin Dorgan hugs his manager for Blackstone Valley Schools connected March 19, 2026. (Eric Rueb/Providence Journal / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)

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"She's precise tough, she's a pugnacious girl. And I convey her, due to the fact that she conscionable wholly filled the shoes of my mom," helium said. "You yet get backmost into a rhythm to wherever you gotta get up disconnected the couch. That's the biggest and archetypal measurement to recovery."

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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