Mt. Morris store sells second big-winning lottery ticket in four months
BFS Foods Store in Mt. Morris might be the place to go for lottery players feeling lucky. The convenience store at 139 Locust Ave. recently sold its second big winner in the last four months.
“It’s a pretty good lottery store here,” said store manager Tammy Wright. “We do fairly well with the lottery on a day-to-day basis.”
The store sold one of two winning tickets for Saturday’s $225,000 Pennsylvania Lottery Cash 5 jackpot. Another winning ticket was sold at a convenience store in Philadelphia.
The two tickets matched all five balls drawn – 03-07-10-11-30. Each ticket is worth $112,500 before taxes are taken out. It was not immediately known who the winner was.
“We sell online tickets and a lot of instant tickets,” Wright said. “Hopefully, we’ll sell a bunch more.”
This big win came less than four months after BFS sold one of the four, $1 million top-prize tickets for the Pennsylvania Lottery’s Millionaire Raffle drawing Oct. 31. There were four winning tickets out of 356,904 sold.
Wright said last year’s winner was a resident of West Virginia, but the person’s identity was not released.
“We have a few that are regulars, and I’ll ask them if they bought this recent winning ticket,” she said.
Pennsylvania Lottery spokesman Allen Zieglar said a store selling two winning tickets so close together is lucky, but not unheard of.
“It’s completely random and there’s really no rhyme or reason to it so that happens from time to time,” he said.
According to a news release from Pennsylvania Lottery, it awarded in Greene County more than $7.1 million in prizes to winners during the last fiscal year.
BFS Foods will earn a $500 selling bonus for the Cash 5 ticket.
The lottery winner has a year to claim the prize. The lottery’s number is 717-702-8146.