Scholarship Created in Memory of Ballplayer Killed in Accident

Before graduating last year from Saugus High School, Kevin English played second base for the school’s varsity baseball team, earning a reputation as a solid infielder and steady batter. When his coaches voted him the team’s Most Improved Player his senior year, he was “absolutely thrilled,” his mother recalls.

On Saturday, two days after English, 18, was killed in a traffic accident, his family therefore announced plans to form a scholarship fund in his memory for Saugus High’s future most-improved ballplayers.

“Hopefully, it will pay for a semester of college so a player can concentrate on playing ball and not have to worry for awhile about where he’s going to find money for tuition,” said the man’s mother, Eleanor English. “Kevin would have liked that.”

Contributions may be sent to the Kevin English Memorial Baseball Scholarship in care of Saugus High School, 21900 West Centurion Way, Saugus, 91350.

English, a student and ballplayer at Los Angeles Valley College, was killed when his van swerved off the Golden State Freeway.

The Times carried a photo of the accident in Friday’s editions.

A Mass in his memory is scheduled for 7 p.m. Monday at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church, 23233 Lyons Ave., Newhall.

English is to be buried Tuesday at Eternal Valley Memorial Park in Newhall.