Preston North End got their pre-season campaign underway with a comfortable 11-0 victory over thei Austrian hosts Hallein.

The Lilywhites proved too good for the Austrian part-timers smashing in four goals in the first half and seven more in the second to bring their pre-season training camp to an end in style.

A hat-trick from Chris Brown, braces for Danny Mayor and Jon Parkin plus further strikes from Neil Mellor, Barry Nicholson, Neal Trotman and Karl Hawley completed the rout in a match where neither Andy Lonergan or Wayne Henderson had a difficult save to make.

Manager Alan Irvine chose to play almost two completely different sides in the match, only Neal Trotman, Danny Mayor and Liam Chilvers completing a full 90 minutes in a match which provided the perfect warm-up for the season.

North End opened the scoring in the seventh minute when Davidson found himself in acres of space down the left flank and cut the ball back into the path of Neil Mellor who stuck out his leg and poked the ball beyond the keeper.

Youngster Danny Mayor showed what he was capable of in the 24th minute when he exchanged passes with Chris Brown and streaked clear down the right wing. Mayor surged effortlessly into the box before squaring the ball for Brown who tapped the ball home for North End's second goal of the game.

Brown doubled his tally for the afternoon on 32 minutes when Wallace skinned his marker on the left and delivered the perfect cross for Brown. The North End striker did everything right in powering the ball beyond the Austrian keeper.

Brown completed his hat-trick moments before the break when Mayor lobbed a ball over the back four and Brown beat the offside trap to go clear in the right channel before smashing a drive past the keeper.

Danny Mayor switched to the left flank in the second half and within seven minutes he had ghosted beyond his full-back and opened his account for the season coolly slotting the ball beyond the keeper with his left foot.

Mayor grabbed a second on 63 minutes when he picked the ball up on the left flank and danced inside the challenge of five Austrian players taking the ball to the edge of the box before wrong footing the keeper with a drive into the bottom corner.

Barry Nicholson got his name on the score sheet on 65 minutes. It came after Parkin had Sedgwick in on the right, Sedgwick squared the ball beyond the keeper and into the path of Nicholson, the Scottish midfielder taking one touch before slotting the ball beyond the defender and into the net.

On 74 minutes it was eight. Darren Carter released Eddie Nolan on the left flank and the Irish flyer squared the ball to the edge of the box, Parkin dinked the ball past the Hallein defender before poking the ball past the onrushing keeper.

Neal Trotman got in on the act on 77 minutes, Sedgwick digging a cross out on the right and the former Oldham man rose the highest to power a header in to the top corner.

Goal number ten came five minutes before the end. Sedgwick again delivering a pin-perfect cross to the far post where Hawley was unmarked. Hawley produced a great header, back across goal, the ball bouncing in to the net off the far post.

Parkin grabbed the final goal of the game in the 88th minute. Nolan lofting a ball into the box and Parkin planted a header over Hallein's diminutive keeper to complete the rout.

Hallein 04: Zanchetta, Josef Hollbacher, Djokic, Jovanovic, Johannes Hollbacher, Esatbeyoglu, Petrovic, Golser, Yasaryildiz, Feurstein, Radic. Subs: Angerer, Jahic, Leitner, Pfeiffer.
PNE First Half: Lonergan, Hart, Chilvers, St. Ledger, Davidson, Mayor, Carter, McKenna, Wallace, Brown, Mellor.
PNE Second Half: Henderson, Jones, Trotman, Chilvers, Nolan, Sedgwick, Nicholson, Carter, Mayor, Parkin, Hawley.