Bowlers Choice Pro Shop led the scratch portion of the event as well as the Diamond Division with the highest team series in USBC Women's Championships history. The group fired games of 1,160, 1,085 and 1,179 for a 3,424 scratch effort and received an additional four pins of handicap per game to finish with a 3,436 final total. Together Once Again of North Richland Hills, Texas, previously held the scratch record with 3,350 in 2006.

Nikki Lunsford led the way for Bowlers Choice Pro Shop with a 717 series and was joined by Michelle Sterner (702), Liz Johnson, who entered the year with three titles at the Women's Championships (690), 2007 Classic Division doubles champion Sue Jeziorski (665) and Sue Nawojski (650).

Along with the new divisions, Diamond, Ruby and Sapphire, the bowlers with the highest scratch scores in team, doubles, singles and all-events will be recognized as overall tournament champions.

"This is the one we've been working on for a long time," Jeziorski said. "This means so much to us. It's just a phenomenal feeling. We'll be looking forward to going to Syracuse (N.Y.) to defend the title on our home turf."

Woessner, who won the 2008 PBA Women's Series Shark Championship, destroyed the tournament's all-events record and tied for the highest series in tournament history on her way to a 2,330 all-events total, surpassing Leanne Barrette-Hulsenberg of Elk Grove, Calif., who rolled 2,231 in the 2005 event.

During her doubles event, Woessner shot games of 259, 268 and 289 for an 816 series, which tied Michelle Feldman's 2009 singles performance. She added 764 in team and 750 in singles.

Woessner's entering average was more than 220, so she didn't receive any additional pins of handicap, but that didn't stop her from taking the Diamond All-Events lead as well.

"I wondered if I was ever going to bowl well enough at Nationals," Woessner said. "I've been waiting for this for a long time. It's very exciting."

Joining Bowlers Choice Pro Shop and Woessner as an overall tournament champion is Krischna Howard of Hawthorne, Calif., who rolled one of the tournament's three perfect games on her way to a 792 singles effort. She received an additional 22 pins of handicap per game to also grab the Diamond Singles lead with 858.

Australia's Carol Gianotti and Missy Klug of Macomb, Mich., shot the highest scratch doubles set of the tournament, finishing with a 1,431 total. Gianotti led the pair with 770, and Klug added 661. Renee Graham of Seat Pleasant, Md., and Felicia Thorpe of Temple Hills, Md., finished atop the Diamond Doubles standings with 1,484.

Also making headlines at the 2010 Women's Championships were participation leaders Emma Hendrickson of Morris Plains, N.J., and Mini Tvaska of St. Petersburg, Fla.

Hendrickson, a 101-year-old bowling sensation, extended her own record as the tournament's oldest participant as she competed at the Women's Championships for the 51st consecutive time.

Tvaska, 92, has competed in more Women's Championships than any bowler and made her 64th consecutive appearance. Her tournament career began at the 1947 event in Grand Rapids, Mich.

The 2011 Women's Championships will be held at OnCenter Complex in Syracuse as the tournament will once again be held in a one-of-a-kind convention-center setting. The tournament is scheduled to start on April 7.

2010 USBC WOMEN'S CHAMPIONSHIPS
At El Paso Convention and Performing Arts Center, El Paso, Texas

(Top 5 division leaders with hometown and pinfalls)

SCRATCH

Team
1, Bowlers Choice Pro Shop (Sue Jeziorski, Nikki Lunsford, Sue Nawojski, Michelle Sterner, Liz Johnson), Tonawanda, N.Y., 3,424. 2, Great Balls of Fire, Peekskill, N.Y., 3,351. 3 (tie), Barry Ashers Embroidery, Arlington, Texas, and Together Once Again, Keller, Texas, 3,345. 5, BowlersMAP, Grand Prairie, Texas, 3,339.

Doubles
1, Carol Gianotti, Henderson, Nev./Missy Klug, Macomb, Mich., 1,431. 2, Jessica Baker, Bel Aire, Kan./Sandra Gongora, Wichita, Kan., 1,407. 3, Carolyn Dorin-Ballard, Keller, Texas/Cathy Dorin-Lizzi, Sandusky, Ohio, 1,406. 4, Paola Gomez, Weston, Fla./Kari Schwager, Rogers Park, Ill., 1,400. 5, Laurie Soto, Castaic, Calif./Paula Vidad, Sun City, Calif., 1,380.

Singles
1, Krischna Howard, Hawthorne, Calif., 792. 2, Tennelle Milligan, Arlington, Texas, 779. 3, Sharon Aston, La Grange, Ky., 771. 4, Shauna Shannon, Albuquerque, N.M., 764. 5, Jodi Woessner, Oregon, Ohio, 750.

All-events
1, Jodi Woessner, Oregon, Ohio, 2,330. 2, Tennelle Milligan, Arlington, Texas, 2,149. 3, Shannon Pluhowsky, Kettering, Ohio, 2,144. 4, Leanne Hulsenberg, Roseville, Calif., 2,136. 5, Shauna Shannon, Albuquerque, N.M., 2,128.