PULLMAN — Ahmed Ali, a point guard on the Washington State men’s basketball team, has left the program.
Ali, a 5-foot-11, 165-pound guard, transferred to WSU from Eastern Florida State College last season and started 24 of 32 games for the Cougars.
He averaged 7.3 points a game and 1.8 rebounds, and he held one of the top assist-to-turnover ratios in the Pac-12, at 2.4.
LITTLE LEAGUE
• Despite two doubles from Blake Skinner, who now has four doubles in two tournament games, North Bothell dropped a 5-2 decision to Coeur d’Alene, Idaho in the Little League World Series Northwest Regional in San Bernardino, Calif.