NEWPORT —“Get the gauze ready!”

Blake Cosby was in the middle of a championship match in the 54th annual Monroe County Sheriff’s Wrestling Invitational on Saturday, Dec. 13.

He shouted to the coaches to alert them he was going to need attention when he got off the mat.

Cosby got hit in the eye a few days before the Sheriff’s. It was swollen nearly shut Saturday, but that wasn’t going to keep him from wrestling.

“He split it open during practice last week,” Dundee coach Garrett Stevens said.

Cosby didn’t become a state champion and one of the top recruits in the state by shying away from pain.

“There was never any question,” Stevens said when asked if he was worried that Cosby wouldn’t be able to compete in Monroe County’s wrestling showcase.

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