HANOVER, N.H.—On a weekend when the Big Green faithful refused to keep their mouths shut, Zak Farkes let his bat do all the talking.

And in the end, the resounding ping of rawhide striking metal wasn’t only deafening.

It was historic.

Farkes belted four critical home runs over a span of four games against Dartmouth—three during Saturday’s doubleheader and one during yesterday’s—shattering Harvard’s single-season mark of 10 and breaking the Crimson’s all-time record of 21.

Farkes closed out the season with an incredible 14 round-trippers—tops in the Ivy League—bringing him to 22 overall.

The infielder, by the way, has accomplished all of this in exactly two years.

“What can I say,” Harvard coach Joe Walsh said. “Every time the kid comes up to bat I’m down at the third base box just saying, ‘Hey, what’s going to happen next?’ But what most people don’t realize is that he’s just a sophomore.”

In the third inning of Game 1, a grand slam dramatically launched Farkes into the record books and past the single-season home run tally originally set by Pete Varney ’71.

After Varney, Mike Stenhouse ’80, Nick DelVecchio ’92 and Brian Ralph ’98 all tied the record, but Farkes is the first player in 34 years to surpass it.

“It’s an honor,” Farkes said. “I know a lot of great players have played here.”

But by no means was the Boston native finished.

Eighteen innings and two more home runs later, the infielder hit number 22 of his career in Hanover—a three-run shot—to break the all-time mark.

“I just went up there and tried to keep my swing going,” Farkes said. “When I hit the ball well, it’s going to go out, and I know that. All I do is try to put the barrel on the ball, and if I don’t hit a home run, then hopefully it’ll be a ball up the middle.”

The fact that the former seems to occur more often than the latter, arguably, becomes even more remarkable once one takes into account not only Farkes’ age, or even his deceptively unthreatening stature—he charitably stands at 5’11, 195 lbs.—but the relatively trying schedule of modern-day Harvard baseball.

Whereas in previous years the school has scheduled Division III teams and other softer non-conference opponents for the early portion of the schedule, the Crimson has replaced them this season with major Division I opponents such as Michigan, Texas Tech and Louisiana-Lafayette.