Three big instant scratch-off winners and another three Carolina Cash 5 winners highlight a week that brought more than $19 million in prizes to lottery players across the state.
The largest win of the week came from Robert Phillips, a retiree from Jacksonville, who plans to use the $1 million he won playing the new $1,000,000 Jackpot game to pay off his mortgage, his auto loan and take a vacation.
Another player won big playing the $1,000,000 Jackpot game. Charlotte resident Karen Witherspoon is the first player to win one of the game’s $100,000 prizes. She purchased the lucky $10 ticket at Mody’s Quick Shop on Prosperity Church Road in Charlotte.
The second largest scratch-off win of the week was awarded to Edwin Filsell, a retired truck driver from Wilmington, who plans to use the top prize he won playing the new $200,000 Jackpot game to pay off the boat that he and his son purchased and go fishing.
The first of the Cash 5 winners is a Pamala Vargas, a former Sanford resident now living in Bloomingdale, Ohio. Vargas won $367,515 in the July 15 Carolina Cash 5 drawing.
Three Carolina Cash 5 tickets matched all five numbers in the Aug. 8 drawing to split the $520,734 jackpot. Ashby Jordan of Greenville plans to use the $173,578 jackpot he won playing Carolina Cash 5 to save for retirement and take a vacation.
This week's last big winner, Fayetteville resident Glen Locklear, said that winning his $173,578 share of a Carolina Cash 5 jackpot means he can take his fiancé on a cruise to the Bahamas. But the North Carolina native almost missed the boat. “I was fixing to throw the ticket away,” Locklear said.
The owner of the third ticket from the Aug. 8 Cash 5 drawing, sold at the Quik Chek on Sunset Avenue in Asheboro, has yet to come forward.
Sixteen prizes awarded were worth between $10,000 and $98,277. In alphabetical order by the winner’s hometown, they are:
Hometown Winner Prize Won Game Played/Draw Date
- Belews Creek Donald Fulp $10,000 $5,000 a Week for Life!
- Clayton Jennifer Russoli $10,000 $2,500 a Week for Life!
- Clyde Ronnie Teaster $10,000 White Hot 5’s
- Cove City Sherita Hargett $10,000 $10,000 Jackpot
- Dudley Antonio Uzzell $50,000 $50,000 Jackpot
- Fayetteville Taquena Ray $10,000 $120 Million Cash
- Fort Lawn, S.C. William Artis $10,000 $120 Million Cash
- Granite Falls Victoria Smathers $20,000 1,000,000 Jackpot
- Hampstead Kent Polkow $10,000 $5,000 a Week for Life!
- Hertford Jerrell Foreman $98,277 Carolina Cash 5 / 8-12-14
- High Point Jerry Spivey $20,000 $1,000,000 Jackpot
- Knightdale Andre Harris $20,000 $1,000,000 Jackpot
- Morganton Patrick Starks $50,000 Carolina Cash 5 / 8-9-14
- Newport Karen Weigand $50,000 Powerball / 8-6-14
- Rocky Point Alexander Malloy $10,000 Jumbo Bucks
- Wake Forest Glenda Nichols $50,000 Carolina Cash 5 / 8-13-14
That's it for this week's wrap-up! Have a fun and lucky weekend everyone!
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