DUNCANSVILLE - A lottery player who bought a ticket in a Duncansville store got a million dollars richer Thursday.
The Pennsylvania Lottery said a Match 6 Lotto ticket was purchased at Smokers Express, 1014 Third Ave.
The ticket correctly matched all six winning numbers - 9, 19, 22, 25, 37, 49 - to win a jackpot of $1,428,129.50, less 25 percent federal withholding, a lottery press release said.
The retailer will receive a $10,000 bonus for selling the winning ticket.
A Smoker's Express employee said Friday evening no winner had come forward yet.
Lottery spokeswoman Allison Roberts said no one has presented the lottery with a claim yet.
The identity of the jackpot winner can not be confirmed until the prize is claimed and the ticket is validated.
Match 6 winners have one year from the drawing date to claim prizes.
How soon someone steps forward depends on the person, she said, noting some people like to get their ducks in a row first.
"We love seeing winners claim their prizes," she said.
Blair County has had a string of winners recently. In December, a Mega Millions ticket was sold in Tyrone for a prize of about $250,000; a Claysburg man won $50,000; a Fefi's Grocery store shopper won $269,640; and a Hollidaysburg business owner won $342,260.
The latest winner is the 10th Match 6 jackpot won since the game started back up in June 2010. The jackpot had been growing since Dec. 5, when one ticket matched all six winning numbers in that day's drawing. Including the jackpot winner, there were 74,293 total winning plays from Thursday evening's Match 6 drawing.
In the 2010-11 fiscal year, in addition to awarding nearly $32.1 million in prizes to Blair County winners, the Pennsylvania Lottery contributed more than $16.4 million to programs serving older Blair County residents.
