Singapore national team member Jasmine Yeong-Nathan (pictured left) powered her way into the lead in the women's division of the 44th QubicaAMF Bowling World Cup currently underway at Bol 300 in Hermosillo, Mexico.

The 20-year-old started the second day of the preliminaries in second place and moved to the top of the leaderboard thanks to a 276 in game #3 and the tournament's third 300 in the last game. To watch our video, click here.

Yeong-Nathan felled 1436 pins on Monday and leads the field with 2816 12-game total and an average of 234.67.

The Singaporean was clearly overwhelmed with her perfect game, but did not even know she was leading the tournament before she played that last game. "I didn’t look at the scores. I had a bad game in the fifth game, a 182, and I was just concentrating on recovering from that. I am just really happy!" she said, tearfully.

Krista Pöllänen (right), Finland, also moved up one spot from third to second after adding 1366 to the 1373 from Sunday. Pöllänen is 77 pins off the lead with 2739 (228.25).

Two of the bookmaker's favorites have positioned themselves in third and fourth place as the preliminaries have reached the halfway mark. Shannon Pluhowsky, United States, climbed one spot to third with 2650 pinfall total.

During the two days of qualifying, Pluhowsky (pictured left) has moved around on the lane hoping to find the most effective place to play and experimented with different equipment to minimize penalties.

"I decided to play a different part of the lane today and moved inside to find some hold," Pluhowsky said. "When I did make a bad shot today, it was easier to get nine, and I didn't leave as many combinations or splits as I did yesterday. Now, it's just a matter of finding the right ball to be able to strike."

Pluhowsky prefers the long format of the World Cup and understands that over 24 games, one bad game is easy to bounce back from.

"I don't know if my 156 game was as bad as the score, but when you have a couple of splits and you don't strike, it happens," Pluhowsky said. "Whenever you bowl a tournament like this, everyone is probably going to have at least one bad game. The key is to be able to forget about it and move on."

Making the biggest move into the top 8 was defending champion Ann-Maree Putney (right) of Australia, who jumped from 20th to fourth place with 2647 thanks to the highest six-game block on Monday. Putney had high games of had games of 269, 259, 249 and 248 and a 1443 series, an average of 240.50.

Anne Gales from Denmark started the day with a 290 game to shoot into the lead but ended the day in fifth position with 2636.

Malaysia's Esther Cheah, who turned professional earlier this year, raised three spots to sixth with a score of 2604.

Helén Johnsson (left), Sweden, moved up from 10th to 7th place with 2593. Rounding out the top 8 is Colombian Sara Vargas, who posted the tournament's first 300 on Sunday, with 2588.

Just outside the box looking in is World Youth Championships gold medalist Tina Hulsch from Germany, who made up some ground with 1353 and a 2577 total. Lisanne Breeschoten, Netherlands, fell two spots to 10th place with 2559.

Overnight leader Zara Glover, England, who led the field of 63 players after the opening block with 1424 (237.33) averaged 188.16 on day two and dropped 10 spots to 11th place with 2553 pinfall total.

16-year-old Daria Pajak (left) from Poland, the youngest player in the tournament, sits in 24th place with 2368 and an average of 197.33.

All competitors will bowl four six-game blocks (24 games overall) over four days before the field is cut to the top 24 on Wednesday. Advancing players will bowl an additional eight games on Thursday, Nov. 13 before the field is cut to the top 8.

The remaining players will bowl eight games of round robin match play with bonus points on Friday morning to determine the top 3 for Friday's stepladder finals.

The women competition will continue on Tuesday morning at 8 a.m. local time with the third block.