Vincent Memorial's Jacobo Elias is SBLive Southern California Athlete of the Week (11/06/2023)
It's considered small division football, but there's nothing Jacobo Elias does on the football field that is in small increments.
The 6-foot, 175-pound senior quarterback for San Diego Section small-school power Vincent Memorial (Calexico, Calif.) has piled up more than 10,000 career yards in his illustrious three-year career that has included more than 7,500 passing yards and more than 2,500 rushing yards. He's accounted for nearly 100 touchdowns.
On Nov. 3, in a SDS Division 5 quarterfinal win over Valhalla, Elias completed 15 of 25 passes for 239 yards and five touchdowns. He also rushed for 73 yards on just six carries.
Those big numbers put him on a SBLive Southern California top performance list, where he then put up even more massive numbers.
Elias piled up more than 7,200 votes — nearly 60 percent of the tallies — to win the SBLive Southern California Athlete of the Week honors for games completed Nov. 2-4.
Since then, his team, the Scots (9-3), moved into the section finals Friday when they'll play Sweetwater. After 11 games, Elias had thrown for nearly 2,300 yards and 25 touchdowns and run for 1,117 yards and nine more scores.
Here are the other nominees Elias out-voted.
Aaron Mitchell, Foothill: Mitchell rushed for 215 yards and five touchdowns, averaging more than seven yards per carry in Thursday's win over Aquinas.
Madden Iamaleava, Warren: Iamaleava had 441 passing yards and five touchdowns in Friday's 34-33 win over Tustin.
Cincere Rhaney, Gardena Serra: Rhaney rushed for 155 yards and two touchdowns, surpassing the 1,500-yard mark for the season in Friday's playoff win over Bishop Amat.
Taylor Bowie, Trabuco Hills: Bowie rushed for 220 yards and three touchdowns in Friday's 24-21 win over Newport Harbor.
Justin Dominguez, Crean Lutheran: Dominguez had 193 rushing yards and three touchdowns in Friday's 37-21 win over Hart.
Charlie O'Connor, Mira Costa: O'Connor caught six passes for 164 yards and had three touchdowns in Friday's win over Yucaipa.
Hunter Gray, Huntington Beach: Gray reeled in seven passes for 164 yards and two touchdowns in Friday's 29-21 win over Glendora.
Vance Spafford, Mission Viejo: Spafford finished with six catches for 173 yards and three touchdowns in Friday's 59-35 win over Palos Verdes.
Zander Requena, West Covina: Requena rushed for 292 yards and had three touchdowns in Friday's playoff win against Paloma Valley.
Gavin Hrynezuk, Don Lugo: Hrynezuk caught 12 passes, finishing with 255 yards and three touchdowns against Santa Paula.
Jaden Mangini, La Jolla Country Day: Mangini had two passing touchdown and two rushing touchdowns against Morse. He passed for 161 yards and rushed for 151 yards.
Carlos David Delgado, Sweetwater: Delgado rushed for 187 yards on eight carries and had three touchdowns in Friday's win over Southwest El Centro.
Hunter Harrington, Cathedral Catholic: Harrington had six catches for 116 yards and two touchdowns in Friday's playoff win against Ramona.
Exavier Williams, Hoover: Williams caught six passes, finishing with 243 yards and three touchdowns in a 48-41 win over Monte Vista.
Brandt Barker, El Capitan: Barker had 247 passing yards and tossed touchdown passes to four different receivers in Friday's playoff win over Patrick Henry.
Lior Leshem, Taft: Leshem had 10 receptions for 296 yards and a touchdown in a loss to Eagle Rock.
Kory Hall, Cleveland: Hall rushed for 295 yards and five touchdowns on eight carries in Friday's win over Kennedy.
Eric Bell, Venice: Bell had two touchdown receptions and a fumble return for a touchdown in Friday's win over Huntington Park.
Isaiah Castro, San Fernando: Castro had two recieving touchdowns, a rushing touchdown and a pick-six in Friday's win over Hollywood.
Ivan Levant, Fairfax: Levant was 31 of 41 passing for 616 yards and had eight passing touchdowns in Friday's win over Panorama.
