Bray Wanderers committed football suicide at Belfield yesterday as UCD gratefully accepted their first win in four games.

Defensive errors gifted UCD their first two goals and they added a terrific third from Ciaran Kavanagh.

Bray did get one back through substitute Richie Parsons midway through the second-half, but the game was long since lost.

UCD took the game to Bray from the start. Their captain Aidan Lynch forced an excellent two handed save from Alan Kane from Robert McAuley's free-kick after seven minutes before a dreadful defensive blunder gifted UCD the lead five minutes later.

Kane and Jody Lynch got their wires crossed as Mick O'Byrne launched what could only be described as an up-and-under into the Bray area. Eoin Bennis punished the error to toe-poke the ball through the legs of retreating sweeper, Colm Tresson, and into the net after Lynch and Kane hesitated.

UCD continued to be the more composed side and Lynch once more got in a good header from an O'Byrne cross on 24 minutes that flew wide of Kane's right-hand post.

Bray gradually settled and Jason Byrne should have done far better when heading over totally unchallenged from Phil Keogh's cross on the half-hour.

But another mistake within six minutes of the second-half gave UCD another goal. Lynch was caught in possession by Bennis who threaded the ball through for O'Byrne to run clear to shoot beyond Kane.

Nine minutes later O'Byrne sent Ciaran Kavanagh through the middle for UCD's third with a delightful lob over Kane.

Parsons gave Bray hope with his goal after 65 minutes but the damage done earlier was irreversible.

UCD: Ryan; Delaney, Mahon, Brett; McLoughlin, Kavanagh, Lynch, Dunne, McAuley; O'Byrne, Bennis. Subs: Martyn for Dunne (83 mins).

BRAY WANDERERS: Kane; McKeever, Tresson, Lynch; P. O'Brien, Dodd, Smyth, Gill, Keogh; Ryan, Byrne. Subs: Parsons, Tierney and Fox for O'Brien, Dodd and Keogh (all 60 mins).

Referee: P McKeon (Dublin).