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Two college wrestlers who were hunting with their teammates in Wyoming were attacked and wounded in a 'sudden, surprise' attack by a grizzly bear over the weekend.
Both men were transported to local hospitals, one of them by helicopter, following the Saturday afternoon encounter which left them 'blood-soaked,',the Wyoming Game and Fish Department said in a written statement.
'Based on the initial information, this appears to be a sudden, surprise encounter with a grizzly bear,' the department said.
Kendell Cummings of Evanston and Brady Lowry of Cedar City, Utah were hunting and enjoying the outdoors together with teammates August Harrison and Orrin Jackson in the Shoshone National Forest, south of Cody, when the bear pounced on them.
Kendall Cummings, right, jumped on a grizzly bear in an attempt to pull it off his friend, Brady Lowry
Kendall Cummings was left with blood-soaked injuried. He received 60 staples in his head and plastic surgery to address major lacerations to his face. He had major lacerations to his left arm and leg that doctors had to suture up, together with stitches on his right hand and right leg
The pair had just spotted feces from what they thought was a bear when the attack occurred.
'Before you could even think or blink, there's a bear that came running out of the trees right in front of me,' said Lowry to Fox News. 'It was beating me up pretty good.'
Lowry ended up with a broken arm which needed six screws and bolts to repair. The bear also bit him in his right thigh. He curled up into a ball during the attack.
Cummings then yelled. The bear charged at him, immediately knocking him to the ground.
Cummings even grabbed the bear by its ear before he too was chased by the grizzly and injured before he could pull out his bear spray.
'I grabbed and yanked him hard,' he explained.
'I could hear when his teeth would hit my skull, I could feel when he'd bite down on my bones and they'd kind of crunch,' he told Cowboy State Daily.
