RALEIGH – A $1 million win makes Joscelyn Upchurch of Durham the second Triangle area lottery player to claim a big prize playing the $4 Million Cash Blowout game in a week.

Upchurch, a retail manager, left work early Wednesday night because she was feeling under the weather. On her way home, she stopped at the Bilboa Food Mart on Angier Avenue in Durham. There, she bought an Ultimate Fan ticket for $5 and $4 Million Cash Blowout ticket for $20.

In her car, Upchurch first scratched off the Ultimate Fan ticket and won $25. After scratching and revealing the $1 million prize on the Cash Blowout ticket, she called her mother in disbelief.

“You’re going to have to come and get me. I can’t move,” she said. “I just won a million dollars.”

Top prize winners in the Cash Blowout game have the option of claiming their prize as a 20 year annuity, or as a lump sum. Upchurch chose the $600,000 lump sum, which had an after-tax value of $408,006. She did not share any immediate plans for her winnings other than to begin looking for a new home.

“I don’t think I’ve woken up yet,” Upchurch said. “It’s a great joy.”

On Feb. 10, a Raleigh woman claimed the first $4 million prize in the $4 million Cash Blowout game. Two $4 million prizes and six $1 million prizes remain unclaimed in the game.

Through June 30 of last year, Durham County players won more than $102.4 million in lottery prizes and local retailers earned more than $13.3 million in commissions on ticket sales. During the same time frame, Durham County education programs received more than $40.1 million in lottery funds. By law, those funds pay for teachers’ salaries in grades K-3, school construction, need-based college scholarships and prekindergarten programs for at-risk four-year-olds.

To date, the N.C. Education Lottery has raised more than $2.2 billion for these initiatives statewide.