Timothy Hill scored a precious goal at Belfield to extend the gap between themselves and their opponents in Leinster’s division one as the Lucanite’s travails in front of goal meant it was all that the students needed to bag their first win of the season.

He scored ten minutes from time from John Brennan’s cross after the Kilkenny man had worked a neat one-two from a free inside the 25 to finally break Weston’s defences.

It was threatening to be a frustrating day for UCD as they dominated the game but that all important goal seemed to be alluding them. Indeed in the first 11 minutes they had 6 short corners but Weston dogged defence and excellent saves from Ian Clarke kept the ball out. Weston had their chances too as Enda Tucker missed out on a one-on-one and had a drag-flick denied by former Glenanne club mate Gareth Carragher.

UCD prevailed however and when they received a free inside the 25 which was played into the centre to John Brennan and the Vice Captain connected with his Captain by sweeping the ball into the top of the circle where Hill deftly deflected the ball into the bottom right hand corner.

Once Hill had put a goal between the teams, Weston did fight back but Simon Pearson and Vikram Singh were unable to level matters from decent openings, though they did draw a last minute corner but Ben Dobson ran out to charge the straight strike down to leave the score 1-0 at full time.