Mr. Davis, a University of Virginia student and a member of the UVA football team, was returning from an early-morning workout when he stopped to pick up coffee for his mother. He also played Cash 5, selecting numbers on his ticket that his grandmother suggested.

“I looked at the numbers on the website after the drawing and said, ‘I… won!’” he said. 

“I woke up my wife and said, ‘I think we just won $100,000,” he said. “We never did get back to sleep that night!” 

 Ebony Long said she doesn’t play the Virginia Lottery’s Cash 5 game often.  Once was all it took when she matched all five numbers to win $100,000.

She found out she’d won when she checked the numbers on the Virginia Lottery’s website.  “I was excited,” she said.