Acalanes soccer player Eli Roth is the Bay Area News Group’s boys high school athlete of the week for Dec. 5-10 after he received 39.24% of the vote at the 5 p.m. deadline Wednesday.
Saratoga soccer player Mateo Porta (28.51%) finished second and Lincoln-San Jose basketball player Sam Wagner (15.84%) placed third.
Congratulations to all the candidates for this week’s recognition.
Roth, a senior, helped Acalanes improve to 4-0, scoring a goal and assisting on two others in a 4-0 victory over Newark Memorial.
A week earlier, he scored twice in a 4-0 win over Foothill.
Before that, he had two goals and an assist in a 3-0 victory over Granada.
To nominate an athlete for next week’s poll, email highschools@bayareanewsgroup.com by Monday, Dec. 19, at 11 a.m. Please include stats and team results.
We also review stats submitted to MaxPreps.com by coaches/team statisticians for consideration.
Winners are announced each Friday on the Mercury News & East Bay Times websites and, starting Sept. 30, in the print edition of the Mercury News and EB Times sports sections.
Past winners
Nov. 28-Dec. 3: Austin Shelton, San Ramon Valley football
Nov. 21-26: Jae’Von Reels, Bellarmine football
Nov. 14-19: Dashiell Weaver, Campolindo football
Nov. 7-12: Nate Bell, Liberty football
Oct. 31-Nov. 5: Angel Barraza, Dublin football
Oct. 24-29: Zachariah Norton, Hayward football
Oct. 17-22: Shane Timmons, Saratoga football
Oct 10-15: Owen Neitzel, Leigh water polo
Oct. 3-8: Salvador Espinoza, Lincoln-San Jose football
Sept. 26-Oct. 1: Antonio Arenas, El Camino football
Sept. 19-24: Nic Austen, College Park water polo
Sept. 12-17: John Ben Pau Mendoza, San Ramon Valley football
Sept. 5-10: Luke Baker, San Ramon Valley football
Aug. 28-Sept. 3: Luke Llabres, Willow Glen water polo
Aug. 22-27: Mikhail Popov, College Park water polo
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