FAI Cup Second round/ Bray Wanderers 7 St Mochtas 0:An early own goal and a Paul Dunphy hat-trick ended this game as a contest by half-time as Bray eased through to the third round with the most facile of wins, equalling their record victory.
Any notion of a shock was quickly dispelled as the Leinster Senior League Division 1A side fell behind in the third minute when left back Stefan Buttner turned Alan Cawley's corner into his own net under pressure from Colm Tresson and Dunphy.
The game was effectively killed off with two quick-fire goals inside three minutes.
Dunphy tapped in his first of the afternoon on 17 minutes after Mochtas keeper Anthony O'Connor parried James O'Shea's stinging shot.
Tresson was then left totally unmarked to volley home Cawley's free-kick to make it 3-0. Bray didn't ease off and Dunphy got his second on 27 minutes after Tresson worked a one-two with O'Shea to provide the cross.
The hat-trick, the first by Bray since John Ryan's three in the final against St Francis in 1990, arrived on 42 minutes. A ball over the top caught St Mochtas square and Dunphy skipped away to blast past O'Connor from a tight angle. Half-time sub John Broderick added the sixth on 48 minutes; tapping in after O'Connor had parried Dunphy's shot.
Gary McCabe got the seventh on 76 minutes, scampering away to shoot past substitute goalkeeper Warren Fee as Bray matched their 7-0 league win over Cobh Ramblers in October 1997.
BRAY WANDERERS: Williams; Tresson, Delaney, Deans, Cronin (Derek Tyrrell, 68 mins); O'Shea, Cawley, Duggan (Caffrey, 54 mins), McCabe; Fox (Broderick, half-time), Dunphy.
ST MOCHTAS: O'Connor (Fee, 67 mins); Harrison, Bridgeman, McLoughlin, Buttner; Eustace (McCole, half-time), Simpson, Munds, O'Neill; Gunnery, Clarke.
Referee: D Hanney(Dublin).
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