RALEIGH – Jake Pitchford, a resident of Nashville in Nash County, won two-thirds of a Carolina Cash 5 jackpot after the numbers he played on two separate tickets matched the winning numbers drawn on March 29. He won $233,917 on each ticket for a total of $467,834 in prize money. Pitchford purchased his winning tickets, worth a combined $318,127 after taxes, at the Kangaroo Express on North Church Street in Rocky Mount.

A man from Taylorsville in Alexander County claimed the third jackpot ticket for the drawing, also worth $233,917, after buying it at the Propst Superette on N.C. 16 South in Taylorsville.

Through June 30 of last year, Nash County education programs received more than $21.3 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.