This afternoon, the Crimson and Big Green travel to Hanover for the teams’ final season showdown. A single Harvard win would clinch the Crimson’s first Ivy Championship Series berth since 2003.

“We set out to win our division and get to a regional,” said Farkes, who hit home runs in each end of the doubleheader. “So we’ve got to take care of business tomorrow.”

Cornell, which clinched the Gehrig Division with a win against Princeton, awaits the winner.

HARVARD 11, DARTMOUTH 10

Dartmouth enjoyed leads of 7-1, 9-8, and 10-9, but failed to distance itself from the hard-hitting Crimson in its Game 2 loss.

Harvard captain Schuyler Mann clubbed two home runs off of Big Green starter Stephen Perry, elevating his season total to eight. Farkes—whose first-inning opposite-field shot twisted beyond the bushes in right field—and junior first baseman Josh Klimkiewicz—who teed a low fastball over the centerfield wall—also added round-trippers.

“Mr. Longball came through,” Walsh said.

Nonetheless, Harvard faced a 10-9 deficit in its last at-bat after Vance’s eighth-inning error—which followed a questionable no-tag call by the home plate umpire, allowing Blydell to reach first after a strikeout—had given Dartmouth the lead.

Singles by freshman Steffan Wilson and Wallace set up one of the game’s more bizarre plays.

With runners on first and third, backup catcher Drew Casey entered the game to pinch-hit in the lineup’s eight-hole. He skied the first pitch he saw into right field’s deep foul territory.

Instead of letting a surefire, game-tying sacrifice fly drop for a strike, Dartmouth right fielder Chris Grimm made the difficult catch.

Wilson scored without a throw.

“I hit it all right,” Casey said. “I couldn’t believe he caught it.

“But if you want to catch it, catch it by all means,” he added.

One Brendan Byrne groundout later, Vance drove home the winning run on Bell’s error.