Fundamentals are key for Perryville

We are just days from the beginning of the high school football season for Missouri and Illinois teams.

This time of year each team is excited about the season and confident good things will heppen. The Perryville Pirates are one of those teams. They have struggled the past five years compiling just 13 victories and suffering through 38-losses.

The key for Perryville head coach Keith Winkler's team is to simply get back to the basics of the game. He says it's all about the fundamentals.

"Just finding that mental aspect of the game," said Winkler. "We were moving the ball (during Friday nights Jamboree) and then we fumbled and it took us awhile to get focused again and ready to go. There's going to be mistakes in games and we are going to have to fight through those mistakes, fight through those adversities come out and execute and do those fundamentals right."

The first part of the season shapes up to be tough. The Pirates first four opponents finished a combined 31-12 last season.