Asay’s manager, Melanie Dabkowski, eagerly watched as customers at the Tarentum store checked their lottery tickets Tuesday afternoon.
A winning Powerball ticket worth $100,000 was sold at the newsstand a day earlier.
“The (PA Lottery officials) just called to tell us,” Dabkowski said. “I’m hoping it was one of our regulars.”
The winning ticket matched four of the five numbers drawn: 12-22-54-66-69, along with the red Powerball number, 15.
Without the $1 Power Play option, the ticket would have been worth $50,000, according to the PA Lottery. The Power Play multiplier on Monday was 2.
Asay’s, a borough convenience store since the 1950s, is at 328 E. Sixth Ave.
Store owner Kevin Bertocki will receive a $500 bonus for selling the winning ticket.
Bertocki said he was anxious watching customers walk into the store Tuesday.
“Most people who buy them here come back to check them,” he said. “We’re waiting for someone to show up and check the winner so we can see their reaction.”
Bertocki has owned the store since 2006. It isn’t the first time he has sold a major winner; although, it has been about four or five years since someone hit it big.
“Nobody’s showed up yet,” he said. “This is pretty exciting.”
Winners have one year from the drawing date to claim their prize.
More than 148,900 other PA Lottery Powerball tickets won prizes of smaller amounts in Monday’s drawing.
A jackpot-winning ticket was sold in California. It was worth $699.8 million, with a cash option of $496 million, the fifth-largest in Powerball history.
