As the player he barely beat out for the honor – senior Gage Heussner (11) of Hale/Bosworth – crouches below hoping for an unlikely miss, Brunswick High School basketball Wildcats senior Troy Zeilstra puts up a point-blank shot which did indeed give his team a 1-point lead in the first quarter of the teams’ pitched battle for the Class 1 District 12 Tournament championship at Meadville earlier this month. Just as Brunswick bested Hale/Bosworth in a close battle in that game, Zeilstra finished just ahead of Heussner in coaches’ voting for the 2024-25 Carroll-Livingston Activity Association all-conference team and earned the league’s most valuable player honor. (PAUL STURM/C-T FILE PHOTO)
By PAUL STURM C-T Sports Editor psturm@cherryroad.com In what had to be a very tight boys’-division vote with a perhaps-surprising outcome, Brunswick High School Wildcats…
