For immediate release: September 21, 2004
Mike Mueller, 773-5770
Platte woman wins $100,000 Powerball prize
(Pierre) – Luann Boyden of Platte is the state’s latest $100,000
Powerball winner. She correctly matched all five white numbers, but not
the red Powerball number, for the Saturday, September 18, drawing.
Boyden, an employee at the 44 Road Stop in Platte, started her shift
on Monday morning by checking the lotto tickets she had purchased there
for Saturday’s drawing. She quickly discovered she held a $100,000
winning Powerball ticket.
“I had two other people check the numbers,” Boyden said. “One of the
other clerks looked at the ticket and started crying. Then I did, too. I
had a really good day at work.”
Boyden claimed her prize at the Pierre Lottery office on Tuesday. She
is the 97th South Dakota player to win the Powerball game’s
second-level prize since the game began in 1992. The 44 Road Stop will
receive a $5,000 bonus for selling the winning ticket.
There was no Powerball jackpot winner for last Saturday’s drawing. The
estimated jackpot for tonight’s drawing is $95 million. Powerball is
played in 27 states, the District of Columbia and the U.S. Virgin
Islands.
