CONTRIBUTED PHOTO — Daryl Koch, of Marshalltown, holds the $30,000 check won after playing the Diamond Mine 9X scratch game.

CLIVE — A Marshalltown man said his $30,000 lottery came at a great time.

“I’m feeling great,” Daryl Koch said on Thursday as he claimed his prize at lottery headquarters in Clive. “I just redid my bathroom, so that’ll pay for it.”

Koch, 54, won the seventh top prize in the Iowa Lottery’s “Diamond Mine 9X” scratch game. He purchased his winning ticket at Kwik Star, 810 S. Third Ave. in Marshalltown, and took the ticket home to scratch.

“I went to the basement in my house and scratched a $30,000 ticket,” he said. “I was just in a little bit of shock, and then reality sets in.”