RALEIGH – Robert Wallace, a cook from Oak Island in Brunswick County, scratched off a $100,000 prize on the Bankroll Doubler ticket he purchased Friday. This was the second time his family had won a big lottery prize as, in 2011, his wife claimed a Powerball ticket worth $200,000.

Wallace purchased two tickets at CJ’s Corner Store on Oak Island Drive in Oak Island on Friday morning. He won $5 on the first, and then got that familiar winning feeling when he scratched off the second, which won the game’s top prize.

“It was the same feeling I had the first time we won,” Wallace said. “The same excitement. I really can’t explain it.”

Wallace said the first big win helped pay off most of their bills. The latest lottery prize will help him make some investments and take his family on a Disney vacation.

After taxes were withheld, Wallace received a check for $68,001. As of Monday, one top prize remains to be claimed in the Bankroll Doubler game.

Since the lottery began through June 30 of 2011, Brunswick County education programs received more than $15.8 million in lottery funds. By law, those funds pay for teachers’ salaries, school construction, need-based college scholarships and prekindergarten programs.

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