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Thursday TigerBlog - Double Feature
May 14, 2026 | Tiger Blog
Are you too young to remember double features?
When TigerBlog was a kid, you could often go to the movies and see two different pictures for one ticket. Also, the tickets weren't really all that expensive. Ah, those were the days.
Anyway, this is a different kind of double-feature week for TigerBlog. It's a double feature story week.
He posted the first one yesterday, about Princeton senior lacrosse midfielder John Dunphey. You'll have to read it for yourself, which you can do HERE.
Dunphey has gone from being a very solid complementary player for his first three seasons and six games to one of the best middies in the country in a blink. Here is some info from the story:
Though Princeton lost that game to Cornell 13-11, Dunphey scored twice, on two shots. The following week he scored five more, on five shots, with three assists in a 20-14 win at Brown, earning a spot on the USILA Team of the Week. That win started Princeton's current winning streak, which has now stretched to nine straight with the win over Marist. Dunphey's totals in that run? He has 15 goals and 14 assists, for 29 points. That's an average of 3.2 per game, or triple his career average prior to that. Incredibly, he has scored those 15 goals on just 24 shots, which is a .625 shooting percentage. That's an insane number.
Oh, and here's the first line:
Thuh-Wump. Pfft. Thuh-Wump. Pfft. Thuh-Wump. Pfft. Thuh-Wump. Pfft.
If that doesn't make you want to read the story, nothing will.
Princeton, by the way, plays in the NCAA quarterfinals this Sunday at noon against Penn State at the University of Delaware. The Tigers are the top seed in the tournament — and not surprisingly, TB will have more on this matchup tomorrow.
His other feature story will run tomorrow, in advance of the Ivy League Heptagonal Championships, which will be held at Weaver Track and Field Stadium Saturday and Sunday. The subject of this one? Pia Beaulieu, an All-Ivy League women's soccer player who will be running the 3,000 meter steeplechase at Heps.
TigerBlog had never met her until he spoke to her last week. She's, uh, memorable. And her story is a really good one.
TB told women's soccer head coach Sean Driscoll and women's distance coach Brad Hunt that when they suggested the story, they had him at "steeplechase."
There are five remaining Ivy League championships to be crowned for the academic year, and all five will be awarded this weekend. The men's and women's outdoor track and field titles will go the Heps winners, while the women's open rowing and men's heavyweight and lightweight Ivy titles will also be decided this weekend.
Of those five, three will be won in New Jersey, with the women's Ivy rowing championships on the Cooper River in Pennsauken. The men's Eastern Sprints will be on Lake Quigsigamond, in Worcester, Mass. It's possible that TigerBlog spelled "Quigsigamond" wrong; it's been a challenge for several decades now.
The men's and women's track teams will be looking to complete another Triple Crown sweep, something that you may take for granted but not something that just happens. All three first varsity 8 races should be crazy competitive after the way the results this season have gone.
And lastly for today, TigerBlog gives a shoutout to Thanana Kotchasanmanee, a freshman from Thailand who competed at the NCAA golf regionals for the last three days. And how did she do?
She tied for the individual title, which earns her a spot in the NCAA championships. This is from the story on goprincetontigers.com:
She entered the day six shots off the lead which was held by Cindy Hsu of Texas at -8, and by the end of the day Kotchasanmanee had shot her second 66 (-4) of the week to vault into a tie for first at 204 (-6) alongside Marta Silchenko of Oklahoma State who had also shot 66 in the final round. With the Cowgirls in third place as a team and in possession of one of five team AQs through to the NCAA Championship, Kotchasanmanee was the recipient of the lone individual qualification that goes to the highest-finishing individual not on the five teams to advance.
Kotchasanmanee is the fourth Ivy Leaguer to secure a trip to the NCAA Championship since it was first held in 1982. The other three are all Princetonians as Kotchasanmanee joins Mary Moan (1997), Kelly Shon, (2013) and Maya Walton (2017) as Tigers to reach the final site.
The 2026 NCAA Division I Women's Golf Championship begins May 22 at Omni La Costa Resort & Spa in Carlsbad, Calif.
And the second feature will be out tomorrow. Make sure you look for it.
