Local Powerball winner picks up $450,000

Wednesday, March 01, 2006 posted 08:13 PM EST

Maimoona Bowcock is one happy camper today after getting a check for more than $450,000 Tuesday at the Wisconsin Lottery offices in Madison.

Bowcock claimed her prize from the record $365 million Powerball drawing Feb. 18, one of two Wisconsin winners who picked the first five numbers (15-17-43-44-48) and only missed the Powerball number of 29.

The other winner in Wisconsin was from Appleton and had already claimed the prize.

The standard "five out of five" prize is $200,000, but because the jackpot had grown so large, the bonus prize money totaled $467,142, making the payout $667,142 to each of the 40 winners nationally.

Bowcock got $450,000 after the 32 percent deduction for income taxes.

"She's in a small, elite club of happy folks," said Wisconsin Lottery spokesperson Jessica Iverson.

Bowcock was expected to "meet the press" this afternoon at Seversin's Service Center, 3401 Milwaukee St., where she had purchased her winning Powerball ticket at 5:57 p.m. on the day of the drawing Feb. 18.

She was unavailable for comment this morning.

Mike Seversin, owner of Seversin's Service Center, told The Capital Times his store will get a commission of $13,300 from the lottery office for selling the Powerball ticket to Bowcock.

He wasn't sure which of his employees had sold the winning ticket, but he had two cashiers on duty at that time feverishly handling the rush of ticket buyers wanting to get their numbers for the largest single prize in U.S. lottery history.

"We will try to reward the people here who work so hard selling the tickets," Seversin said.

Powerball ticket sales at Seversin's topped the 1,800 ticket mark Feb. 18, with over 3,500 tickets sold in the days leading up to the big drawing.

"We usually sell between 200 and 400 tickets a drawing," Seversin said.

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