The Dean Snell Cancer Foundation has another $1,800 to help cancer patients with their costs, thanks to a Wiscasset family’s volleyball benefit Saturday. The event at Chad and Julie Jones’ Jones Sand Volleyball Court, at home on Suki Lane, marked an expansion of the fundraiser from once a year to twice, Snell’s niece Julie Jones said.

The money raised at the daylong event adds to the $367,000 Snell’s widow Sharon Snell of Bath said the foundation has raised since the family started it in his memory in 2009. He died that year after a courageous fight with esophageal cancer, family members have said. The nonprofit has aided more than 300 patients of New England Cancer Specialists in Brunswick with a range of financial needs, such as insurance premiums and taxi rides to treatment, and the household expenses that can be hard to meet when fighting cancer.

The fundraiser is in its third year. The spring installment is new. The summer one will be in July or August, Jones said. Saturday’s turnout of 11 teams was the biggest yet. Participants arrived from as far as Massachusetts and Hartland. About 75 people, including the teams, attended, she said. Besides the action on the court, the event had ping pong and concessions and, on the front lawn, more volleyball fun.

Todd Mahoney of Augusta was all smiles as he got two steamed hot dogs. Getting Doritos to go with them, he said, “I need my vitamin D.” Asked what got him to spend his Saturday at the event, Mahoney said: “Great people and a great cause.”

The weather cooperated. “We were hoping that the rain would hold off, and it has. So we’re excited about that,” Jones said next to the court about two hours int the fundraiser. She said she was also excited to see the “oodles” of teens taking part.

Among them, Turner’s Brian Hewitt, interviewed during practice play, said he was there to support the foundation. He added, he wasn’t much of a volleyball player but was having fun with it.

Judi’s Country Store Bakery and Shaw’s supermarket, both in Wiscasset, and Mark Nickerson Plumbing of Phippsburg were event sponsors, Jones said. Brandon and Greg Sprague of Edgecomb helped by bringing their family’s race car. Attendees could be photographed with it, adding to the fundraising, Jones said.

To help sponsor the summer installment of the fundraiser, contact Jones at justjules31@gmail.com or 522-8240. For more on the foundation, visit www.deansnell.org.