The Paul Bauscher Tribute on Saturday marked the finale of the 2021 John Blewett Inc., Mahoning Valley Speedway Hall of Fame Series, and for the fourth time in five series races, Matt Hirschman was first to cross the line.

Hirschman started sixth in the 91-lap contest - that number reflective during Bauscher’s career - and passed John Markovic for the lead 28 laps into the race. He then held off Austin Kochenash the rest of the way to collect his sixth Mahoning win in seven 2021 starts, and claim his second straight Hall of Fame Series title.

“This has been a great season for us here at Mahoning, and we still have one more to go (Oct. 30), and for the Hall of Fame Series we were nearly perfect, and one of them just wasn’t meant to be, but all in all we are thankful for a great season here, and to win this Series for a second year in a row,” said Hirschman, who picked up his 28th Mahoning victory.

“There was a lot of good support here tonight from all the Bauscher fans, and it was great to have Paul here too. It was pretty cool that he got to pace the field with his Modified. It’s important that we continue to honor guys like him for all they did back in the day.”

In 10 MVSHoFS races in the past two years, Hirschman has now won eight times.

“The restarts were the only chance we had to try and cross him (Hirschman) over, but other than that he was in a class of his own,” offered Kochenash.

“I saved my tires in the beginning, but obviously we just need to get a little bit better to catch Matt. We’ll go home and try to make some adjustments and come back at the end of this month and shoot for the win.”

Not surprisingly, the Street Stock feature was close from start to finish as Randy Ahner Jr., had to withstand Jillian Snyder, as well as his teammate and newly-crowned champion TJ Gursky en route to his second win of the year. The win locked up the Street Stock Hall of Fame Series title for Ahner.

In the Hobby Stocks, Jacob Boehm led from start to finish for his third win of the year. Justin Merkel’s third-place finish would earn him the Hobby Stock Hall of Fame Series championship.

Dave Kerr inherited the lead in the Futures/Rookie Hobby Stocks feature with three laps to go when race-long leader Adam Steigerwalt’s car lost power briefly, and he then held off Greyson Ahner for his second win of the year. Brody George’s third-place finish gave him his 10th victory with the Futures.

Modified feature finish (91-laps):

1. Matt Hirschman, 2. Austin Kochenash, 3. Zane Zeiner, 4. Lou Strohl, 5. Nick Baer, 6. Earl Paules, 7. Cody Kohler, 8. Nevin George, 9. John Markovic, 10. Jaden Brown, 11. Rod Snyder Jr., 12. Don Wagner, 13. Bobby Jones, 14. Carl Altemose, 15. Jesse Strohl, 16. Jacob Kerstetter, 17. Terry Markovic, 18. BJ Wambold

Street Stock feature finish (30-laps)

: 1. Randy Ahner Jr, 2. Jill Snyder, 3. TJ Gursky, 4. Jon Moser, 5. Kevin Graver Jr, 6. Tucker Muffley, 7. Randy Green, 8. Mark Martini, 9. Rick Reichenbach, 10. Rich Moser, 11. Brandon Christman, 12. Mark Deysher, 13. Jaimie Smith, 14. Todd Ahner, 15. Logan Boyer, 16. Thomas Flanagan, 17. Tommy Flanagan, 18. Matt VanSyckle

Hobby Stock feature finish (25-laps)

: 1. Jacob Boehm, 2. Trisha Connolly, 3. Justin Merkel, 4. Ryan Berger, 5. John Petro, 6. Corey Edelman, 7. Shayne Geist, 8. Nick Schafer, 9. BJ Wambold, 10. Kip George, 11. Tad Snyder, 12. James Tout, 13. Ralph Borger Jr., 14. Nickolas Kerstetter, 15. Mallory Kutz, 16. Cody Boehm, 17 Travis Solomon

Futures/Rookie Hobby Stock feature (15-laps)

: 1. Dave Kerr, 2. Greyson Ahner, 3. Brody George, 4. Gabrielle Steigerwalt, 5. Makayla Kohler, 6. Maggie Yeakel, 7. Adam Steigerwalt, 8. Zoey Moyer, 9. Michael Klotz, 10. Hailee Muffley, 11. Reid Levengood, 12. Zoe Kuchera