Last Friday, Ashley Eggen went into the Neighborhood Market store in Elizabethtown and paid $2 for a ticket in the Mega Millions lottery.

By Saturday morning, the Elizabethtown woman realized those couple bucks for a ticket turned into $1 million, as she had won the Mega Millions prize.

Eggen claimed the prize Monday, Kentucky Lottery officials said.

Her ticket matched the five winning numbers but not the Powerball, giving her the game's second prize, according to a Kentucky Lottery news release.

Lottery officials had been seeking the winner since the Mega Millions ticket was drawn Friday night.

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Eggen, 33, told lottery officials she does not usually check her tickets right away, but while waiting on her 5-year-old son to get ready Saturday morning, she checked the winning numbers on her laptop, according to the release.

“I just sat there a minute. I thought, wait a second, that’s a million dollars. I just started screaming,” Eggen said in the release, adding that her son started screaming with her.

Eggen tried calling her mother to share the big news but needed seven calls to reach her, the release said.

"I thought for sure something was wrong," Eggen's mother Gail said in the news release.

As for what she will do with the winnings, Eggen only wants one thing: a house for her and her son, who would like it to have a pool, the release said.

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"It just needs to have a basement and a porch," Eggen said in the release.

The odds of winning the second prize are 1 in 12,607,306, according to Kentucky Lottery.

The Neighborhood Market store will receive $10,000 for selling the winning ticket. After taxes, Eggen took home $710,000, according to Kentucky Lottery.

"When I hear of someone winning the lottery, I think, man they got lucky," Eggen said. "I never thought I'd be sitting here."

Billy Kobin: bkobin@courierjournal.com; 502-582-7030.