Big boards from Paul Rogers and potent scoring from Alex Loughton gave the Perth Wildcats a 111-99 win over the struggling South Dragons at Challenge Stadium.

The Wildcats are maintaining their stronghold on a top-four berth on the back of a 30-point game from Loughton and ahead of their Queensland double against Brisbane and the Gold Coast next weekend.

The Dragons, who are languishing at the bottom of the NBL ladder and have now lost 10 games in-a-row, were led by Bakari Hendrix with 26 points.

Two early fouls limited Perth guard Peter Crawford to just two-and-a-half minutes of court time in the first term as Loughton stole the show to score the Wildcats first eight points of the game.

On the back of a Shawn Redhage long-range bomb, the home side opened up an eight-point lead in the latter stages of the term but Hendrix took his total to 11 and reduced the margin to two points at quarter-time.

Loughton, Redhage and Rogers were again called on to do the bulk of the scoring as last-placed Dragons went toe-toe with the fourth-placed Wildcats.

When Redhage and Rogers combined to score six unanswered points the Cats opened up the biggest lead of the second quarter to go ahead by five.

Rogers was a monster on the boards, pulling in 10 rebounds and blocking three shots.

But when former Wildcat Matt Burston started to fire so too did the Dragons and reduced the margin to two to trail 50-48 at half-time after Cortez Groves hit a basket with four seconds left in the half.

Jacob Holmes and Joe Ingles found ways to get around the Perth defence, stepping back to take some long-range jump shots that ensured they maintained touch with a team that had already beaten them twice this season for the time being.

Gerald Brown started a 15-5 run to end the third term for the Wildcats and give them a 12-point buffer at three quarter-time.

The breakaway was led by sharp-shooter Ben Hunt who hit two three-point shots in the final 50 seconds of the quarter.

Hendrix hit another three-pointer to start the fourth quarter but as Crawford made up for lost time and hit 13 points in the final stanza the Wildcats blew the game out to lead by 19 points before some late baskets reduced the final margin.

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