Midday Sports News for 11 October 2018

Taranaki's Jarrad Hoeata and Canterbury's Daniel Lienert-Brown have both been handed 5-week bans for violent behaviour in their provincial rugby game in Christchurch last weekend, the former Silver Ferns coach Yvonne Willering says the current side simply lacks depth, and New Zealand has won two gold medals on the opening night of the Oceania Track Cycling Championships in Adelaide.