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...While BB&N is known for sending students to Harvard, few BB&N players have ever played baseball for the Crimson. BB&N coach Rick Forestiere’s cannot remember memory two BB&N graduates ever playing on the same Harvard team, let alone two classmates. Klimkiewicz and Farkes will be starting for Harvard as freshmen, the former at third base and the latter at second...
...They are two of the finest players I’ve ever coached,” Forestiere says. “Zak is one of the best to ever play the game at BB&N. He’s a leader, he’s the hardest of workers and he’s extraordinarily talented. He’s irreplaceable. Josh is the best high school hitter I’ve seen or coached. He’s offensively scary...
...players’ paths first crossed in the spring of 2000. At the time, Farkes was the starting second baseman for BB&N, beginning his third season on the varsity team. Sensing his immense talent, Forestiere allowed Farkes to play with the high schoolers when he was only in eighth grade...
Klimkiewicz transferred to BB&N that year from St. Sebastian’s, another local private school that competes in the ISL. A junior, Klimkiewicz decided to stay back a year in order to switch schools...
...went to BB&N for academics, primarily,” Klimkiewicz says. “I wanted to go to Harvard and I knew about BB&N’s baseball program, so it seemed like a good match.” Klimkiewicz immediately became the starting shortstop for Forestiere’s club, though baseball was not Klimkiewicz’s only athletic interest...