The Dragons notched up a milestone 10th consecutive win with their 36-4 victory over Lithgow.

It was Mudgee's biggest win over their fiercest rivals in several seasons.

Dragons' player-coach Jack Afamasaga was delighted to continue his team's unbeaten run but it wasn't as convincing as the score line indicated.

“The first half we were a bit all over the place with dropped ball and penalties late in the set, and that kind of set us back. But the boys picked up their act after a try was put on us in the second half and we went on to win 36-4. It speaks for itself,” he said.

“As a coach, to watch the boys defend like that and have one try scored on us, and they had six or seven sets on our line. That is credit to our boys.”

In a scrappy opening quarter of the match, both teams were plagued by poor handling.

Lithgow had the best of the chances but Mudgee’s defence, which has been the backbone of their success this season, was hard to crack.

Competition’s leading try-scorer Corin Smith turned provider for his winger James O’Connell; the centre’s off-load saw O’Connell race away to score the first points of the match.

A shoulder charge penalty on Smith provided the Dragons’ second try as Jeremy Lang’s beautiful ball to Tom Lewsley saw the Western Rams representative score to make it 10-0.

An infringement at a tap restart saw Lithgow’s Cory Willmott sit down on the sidelines for 10 minutes. The one man advantage was short lived however as a minute later, Dragons’ Hamish Bryant was also sent to the sin-bin.

With the match drawing close to half-time, a set back line move put Smith into space on his own 30-metre line and from there, he used his speed to beat the Lithgow defence and score his 20th try of the season.

Mudgee led 16-0 at the break but Lithgow were the ones to jump out the blocks first in the second half.

Back from the bin, Willmott finished off a superb team try, which started in their own half and finished in the grandstand corner.

The game was set up for another cracker between the two sides but more mishandling and ill-discipline tested the patience of the spectators.

With 20 minutes to go, a grubber kick by Lithgow was picked up by winger Nathan Orr and the Mudgee speedster raced 95 metres to score in the corner for a 20-4 lead.

It opened the floodgates as Mudgee scored three tries to Tim Condon, Chris Ward and Josh Crowe in 13 minutes to blow the score out to 36-4.

With some crunching tackles, the match came to life in the dying minutes.

Bryant was sent to sin-bin for the second time and despite the one man disadvantage, the Dragons were able to keep Lithgow to four points.

With a spot in the semi-finals all but confirmed, Afamasaga still isn't talking about the business end of the season just yet.

“It's still way too early,” he said. “We are trying to perfect our game. It is far from perfection and we will use these next few weeks to tweak a few things in our game.”

MUDGEE DRAGONS 36 (Nathan Orr, Corin Smith, Tom Lewsley, James O'Connell, Tim Condon, Chris Ward, Josh Crowe tries; Crowe 4 goals) def LITHGOW WORKIES 4 (Cory Willmott try).