No one nationwide hit a Powerball jackpot worth more than $1 billion in Wednesday’s drawing, but someone in Vacaville was one of two people in California to win more than $1.2 million with their ticket, state lottery officials said.

A ticket purchased at a Cigarettes 4 Discount store on Alamo Drive in Vacaville matched five numbers in the drawing — 9, 35, 54, 63 and 64 — but did not also match the Powerball number 1. Nevertheless, that means the ticket is worth $1,220,123, according to the California Lottery.

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Dan McMenamin is the managing editor at Bay City News, directing daily news coverage of the 12-county greater Bay Area. He has worked for BCN since 2008 and has been managing editor since 2014 after previously serving as BCN’s San Francisco bureau reporter. A UC Davis graduate, he came to BCN after working for a newspaper and nonprofit in the Davis area. He handles staffing, including coaching of our interns, day-to-day coverage decisions and management of the newswire.