Colin Dorgan, who lost three loved ones in a mass shooting at a Rhode Island hockey game last month, scored in overtime on Wednesday in Blackstone Valley Schools’ 3-2 victory over Portsmouth in the state ice hockey semifinals.
With the score knotted 2-2 during four-on-four play in the second OT, Dorgan scored on a breakaway, sending his team to next week’s Rhode Island Interscholastic League (RIIL) Division II boys ice hockey championship.
The player’s mother, Rhonda Dorgan, brother, Aidan Dorgan, and grandfather, Gerald Dorgan, were killed during a Feb. 16 shooting at the Dennis M. Lynch Arena in Pawtucket.
Shooter Robert Dorgan, 56, Rhonda Dorgan’s ex-husband who also went by the first name Roberta, died of a self-inflicted wound during a struggle with bystanders.
Dorgan scores the game-winning goal in double overtime.Louis Walker III / Providence Journal / ImagnColin Dorgan’s goal Wednesday night sent the crowd at Providence College’s Schneider Arena into joyous celebration.
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