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

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Colin Dorgan stepped up for his Rhode Island high school ice hockey team once again, and this time it came in the championship.

Dorgan scored the game-tying goal for Blackstone Valley Schools with less than a minute left in the third period against Lincoln High School in the Division 2 boys’ state championship. It led to four nerve-racking overtime periods before Blackstone finally won the game, 3-2, and secured the championship.

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

He helped get Blackstone Valley to the championship game itself last week when he scored the game-winning goal in double overtime.

The moment on Wednesday came weeks after a tragic shooting occurred during one of his games in Rhode Island. 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 identified as transgender, also went by the names Roberta Esposito and Roberta Dorgano, authorities said, adding the shooter died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Dorgan said after the championship that he was nervous about returning, but he had immense support from family, friends and teammates to get him off the couch and back onto the ice.

"Throughout all of the playoffs, even this game and the overtimes, I truly felt it in my heart and my soul that they're still with me," Dorgan said. "I love them so much."

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