Tarver qualifies for State Tournament

PERRIN — Ty Tarver knows as the lone member of his school’s tennis team, he needs to be his own motivation. He wears a T-shirt reminding him of such.

Tarver, a Perrin High senior, transferred to Perrin when his father David, a Mineral Wells coach, took the secondary principal job here. The junior Tarver, who played No.1-singles as a Ram, has made his presence known on the Class A tennis circuit by qualifying for the State Tennis Tournament May 16-17 at Texas A&M’s Mitchell Tennis Center.