The win was clinched in the meet’s final event, the 4 x 400 relay, in which his Rocketeers earned 1 point to edge Central Catholic, 69-68.
But when Herber entered the results into his record book Monday morning, the scores added to a total that fell short of 69. He knew something was off.
“For our individual scoring, I try to keep up with it and try to keep the kids [aware of] where they are individually for scoring,” Herber said. “We were looking at it, and I did all the math, and I said, ‘Aww.’ ”