Iain Thornley and Liam Marshall both claimed two tries as Wigan eased to a comfortable 40-22 Super League victory over their local rivals Warrington at the Halliwell Jones Stadium.
Thornley scored his first tries of the season after rejoining the club following a seven-year absence which saw him star for Hull KR, Catalans Dragons and Leigh.
Bevan French, Ethan Havard and Liam Farrell also touched down as Wigan ran in seven tries, with Harry Smith landing six goals.
It was the perfect tonic for Matt Peet’s side, who were dominant throughout ahead of next weekend’s mouth-watering Challenge Cup semi-final clash with St Helens at Elland Road.
Warrington came crashing back down to earth after some improved recent performances, with their points coming from tries by Riley Dean, Danny Walker, Peter Mata’utia and Matty Ashton and a goal apiece from Dean, Mata’utia and Josh Thewlis.
Elsewhere, Lachlan Coote’s hopes of featuring in next week’s Challenge Cup semi-final are hanging by a thread as Hull KR were left to the count the cost of a disastrous 12-0 defeat at Leeds.
The Robins went into the game looking to set a club record of seven straight Super League wins but conjured their worst display of the season as tries from Matt Prior and Morgan Gannon earned the injury-ravaged hosts their second successive victory.
The full-back Coote was helped off for a head injury assessment after a clattering collision with Kruise Leeming early in the second half and did not reappear, while there are also question marks over the centre Sam Wood, who was helped off the field shortly after.
St Helens bounced back from defeat to Castleford last week to claim a hard-fought 14-10 victory over Salford but a first-half injury to Jonny Lomax took some of the shine off the win.
The influential half-back left the field appearing to be suffering with a hand injury in the 27th minute and did not return. Saints also had to overcome Jack Welsby twice going to the sin-bin while Mark Percival was also shown a yellow card at the Totally Wicked Stadium as they were made to dig deep for the win.
Catalans Dragons got back to winning ways in Super League with an emphatic 44-12 victory over Castleford. A man-of-the-match display by the scrum-half Tyrone May and a hat-trick of tries for young French international Matthieu Laguerre helped the Dragons respond after last week’s defeat at Hull.
May was at the heart of everything, stepping in for the injured Josh Drinkwater and combining brilliantly with his fellow Australian Mitchell Pearce at stand-off.