ROCHESTER, N.Y. – Section V Baseball inducted its 2025 Hall of Fame class during a pre-game ceremony at Innovative Field. Matt Agostinelli (Greece Athena/St. Bonaventure), Greg Constantino (Canandaigua/St. Bonaventure/St. John Fisher), Eddie Lee (Madison/Monroe Community College/South Alabama), R.D. Long (Bishop Kearney/Webster Thomas/Arizona/Houston), Rich Pilliter (Aquinas), Steve Wintermute (Irondequoit/Monroe Community College/Northern Kentucky) and the 2004 Victor Blue Devils were honored prior to the Rochester Red Wings game with Syracuse.
A two-time All-County Player of the Year and Class AA MVP, Agostinelli helped Greece Athena to back-to-back Class AA titles in 2001 and 2002. The ’02 Athena squad advanced to the NYS semifinals. A three-year varsity player, Agostinelli garnered First Team All-State in 2002. He was a National Honor Society member and won the Principal’s Scholar-Athlete Award in 2002. Agostinelli went on to play four years at St. Bonaventure University where he earned Second Team Atlantic-10 and was named to the 2006 Atlantic 10 All-Tournament team. He went on to play professional baseball in Italy and was a member of the 2007 Italian National Baseball team.
Constantino, a two-time First Team Finger Lakes East performer, helped Canandaigua to the 1995 Class AAA championship. He continued his career at St. Bonaventure and later St. John Fisher. He hit .405 in 1997 and represented Fisher on the 1997 All-Region team and played in the NYS All-Star game at Yankee Stadium. Also in 1997, he was named to the New York Collegiate Baseball League (NYCBL) All-Star game. Constantino hit .478 in 1998 and was named to the Empire 8 All-Conference team as well as All-Region and All-State. As a member of the Rome Indians, he garnered repeat NYCBL All-Star honors in 1998 and ’99. He hit .501 in 2000 with Fisher to earn All-Empire 8. He signed with the Johnstown Johnnies of the Frontier League in 2001 and was the first United States citizen to sign with the Niagara Stars of the Can-Am League in 2002. He later inked contracts with Bologna Mariners and San Marino Expos. He was an All-Tournament team member of the European Cup in 2003 when he hit .504. He represented Italy in the 2004 Summer Olympics at Athens.
Lee played three years of varsity baseball at Madison High where he earned the 1975 All-City MVP. He garnered American Legion MVP honors in 1974 and hit .467 during the 1975 American Amateur Baseball Congress season. Lee continued his career at Monroe Community College and earned All-Region, All-District and All-American honors helping the Tribunes to the 1978 National Junior College Athletic Association World Series. He set a then-program, single-season record with 24 stolen bases. He went on to play for hall-of-fame head coach Eddie Stanky at the University of South Alabama and was drafted by the Boston Red Sox in 1979. He was a Carolina League All-Star in 1980 with Winston-Salem in 1980. A member of the MCC Athletics Hall of Fame, Lee has coached Franklin High School baseball for 35 years including the 2017 team that won the Rochester City Athletic Conference (RCAC) championship.
THE SECTION V BASEBALL HALL OF FAME.
Long led Bishop Kearney to three-straight City Catholic League championships (1986, 1987 and 1988) before transferring to Webster Thomas where he helped that program to the 1989 Class AAA crown. A Super 15 and All Greater-Rochester selection in both baseball and basketball in 1988 and ’89, he set a New York state high school record with 56 consecutive stolen bases. Long also helped Rayson-Miller Post to the 1986 District 7 American Legion championship. He received 22 Division I scholarships and went to play at the University of Arizona from 1989 to 1991 before finishing his collegiate career at the University of Houston. Cleveland chose Long in the 1989 MLB Draft and the New York Yankees selected him in the 1992 amateur draft. He played with the Oneonta Yankees in 1992 and Greensboro Hornets in 1993. He was part of the Tampa Yankees that won the 1994 Florida State League High-A championship and went on to Double-A Norwich and eventually Columbus of the Triple-A International League where he was part of the 1996 Governors’ Cup champions. Long retired as a Columbus Clipper at Frontier Field in 1997. He founded a youth development program – Mind, Body and Soul – in 2002.
Pilliter guided Aquinas to 308 wins, 14 City-Catholic League titles and two sectional championships (1979 and 1984) over a 22-year career. Pilliter, who passed away in 1996, was named City-Catholic League Coach of the Year on numerous occasions.
Wintermute compiled a 28-2 record on the mound over a three-year varsity career in which he helped Irondequoit (which was 66-6 during that stretch) to sectional championships in 1985, ’86 and ’87. He combined on a no-hitter with his brother, Jim, while at Irondequoit. He went on to Monroe Community College where he was part of the 1989 National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) World Series that finished with a 32-3 record. He hit .447 that year and was named an All-American and MCC Male Athlete of the Year the following season. Wintermute went on to Northern Kentucky University where he earned All-Conference honors in 1991 when he hit .348.
The 2004 Victor team was the first Section V squad to win a New York state title. After defeating Batavia (9-1) to take the sectional crown, Victor went on the beat Albion of Section VI (9-0), Section III champ Westhill (2-1) in the state semifinals and Our Lady of Lourdes (11-3) in the Class A state final. The Finger Lakes East champions, who finished 23-2, set program marks for winning percentage (.869), batting average (.402), on-base percentage (.541), runs scored (267), hits (311), home runs in a game (3), doubles (60), RBI (226), grand slams (3), hit by pitch (39), sacrifices (19) and double plays (17).
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