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Leading this year's unit will be a trio of juniors--Fred Scherrer, Bill Wolff and Ben Elizondo. Toss in Wade Stokes and goalie Don Benson, both juniors and returning starters, and second-year Coach Chris Hafferty can claim a nucleus of proven talent...
...Benson, who earned second team All-New England honors last year, is set for his second full year in the net. Other returnees at field include sophomores Joe Kaufman and Steve Dodge, and junior Pete Kaiser...
Last week, after deliberating 11 1/2 hours on testimony heard during a four- week trial, a jury in nearby Fort Myers found her son Steven Benson, 35, guilty of two counts of first-degree murder, two of felony murder and five relating to arson and unlawful explosives. Judge Hugh D. Hayes Jr. said he intended to heed the jury's recommendation for life in prison when formal sentencing occurs next month...
Prosecutors presented 52 witnesses who painted Steven as an improvident drifter whose business failures apparently led him to misappropriate some of his mother's fortune. Only days before the explosions, Margaret Benson asked a family lawyer to investigate. Steven, the prosecutor argued, feared disinheritance. Experts testified that his handprints were found on receipts for a length of 4-in.-diameter pipe ($36.08, including tax) and two pipe endpieces ($28.05 total) of the kind used in the fatal bombs. Steven's sister, her face bearing ugly burn scars from the bombing, told the court that he left the car just before...
Steven, considered mild-mannered around Naples, where the freshly widowed Margaret Benson had moved from Lancaster, Pa., in 1980, wept twice during the trial. When the verdict was pronounced, he sat in choked silence. The defense planned to appeal...