For the second straight year, the Moose Jaw Kinsmen Lacrosse Association came together over the Christmas season to remember a fallen member of their community.

Ken Stewart, arguably the best lacrosse player that Moose Jaw has produced, died in a car crash last year. The inaugural Ken Stewart Memorial Classic was put together after that to remember him and celebrate his life, while raising some funds for his young family.

The event continued into a second year this year with the focus now turning to setting up the Ken Stewart Memorial Scholarship Fund, which will be awarded to a Moose Jaw lacrosse player each year.

“We're just in the process of making it work, so basically this is the first step towards the scholarship,” said Bobbi Ingalls, president of the Moose Jaw Kinsmen Lacrosse Association (MJKLAX). “We've always talked about having something for our Moose Jaw lacrosse athletes, not necessarily in an athletic scholarship, but any of our players that have played over the years will have an opportunity to apply.”

The hope is that enough funds can be raised to set up two scholarships that will be available to the athletes each year.

The groundwork is still being put in place for the scholarship, but Ingalls added that Saturday's event at YaraCentre was a good start.

“We still have to sit down as an executive and work all the details out, but this is the first step towards that,” she said. “We always knew that we were going to continue on with memorial classic, so what better way to raise funds and give it back to our association, which is something that he loved.”

Frank Davalos, a former Moose Jaw lacrosse player that went on to play at Simon Fraser University, helped spearhead the first Ken Stewart Classic and came back from Chile to take part in the second edition.

“When we did it, we weren't really thinking of making it into an (annual) thing and the fact that everyone has pulled together for a great cause, it's just kind of exciting and I never would have expected it,” said Davalos before hitting the field for the senior game.

“It was such a crazy, amazing, good event last year and I knew that it was going to happen this year, but I wasn't here to help set it up, so my auntie (Bobbi Ingalls) helped huge and she killed like she always does, but it's really nice to be home for this.”

While the focus from the first event was helping out Stewart's family, Davalos added that he couldn't think of a better way to continue remembering Stewart than through a scholarship.

“It's going to be amazing that we get to give somebody a little bit of money to help with their post-secondary education, so it's great for sure,” he said.

About 70 players across all age groups came out for the games, which ran throughout the afternoon on Saturday at YaraCentre.