There are enough golf state championship trophies at Baylor that they could be used for firewood without many noticing.

But winning one this year may relegate the 2008 boys’ or girls’ trophy to a special case with silent alarms and laser-beam security.

McCallie beat the Baylor boys’ team at the regional. GPS beat the Baylor girls’ team at the regional.

The Red Raiders and Lady Raiders are going to have to earn a title this year.

“We’re not panicking, and I like both of our teams,” Baylor coach King Oehmig said. “But we need to play the way we’re capable of playing.”

The Baylor girls have won 13 consecutive state titles, with Brooke Pancake leading the way the last four years as the medalist. She’s graduated and now playing for Alabama.

GPS last won a girls’ title in 1987 before Jordan Britt, Mary Alice Murphy or Kerstin Fessler were born. Coach Ryan Kopet was 5 years old.

“It’s going to take perseverance, and I’m sure all of our girls are fired up,” Kopet said. “We hadn’t won a regional since I went to school there.”

They won last Monday when Murphy and Britt birdied their final hole. Baylor’s top two scorers bogeyed the same hole, resulting in a four-shot swing and a Bruisers victory.

“We’ve tried to put that our of our heads, because that was just one tournament and not our main goal,” Kopet said. “More than anything, it was a confidence booster and proved they put in the work since Jordan shot her career best.”

Britt, a junior, said she’ll carry the confidence of that victory into the state tournament Tuesday and Wednesday at Old Fort Golf Course in Murfreesboro.

“Regionals was a spirit-lifter,” she said. “We’re not going to get overconfident. Who knows what the other teams will shoot? We feel really good about this year.”

The Baylor girls’ team has felt good about state nearly as long as senior Morgan McQuary has been alive. The Lady Raiders have won the state every year she’s carried a red golf bag, and that adds to the pressure of the 2008 state tournament.

“It’s even more dramatic because we lost to our rival team in regional and we’re practicing even harder,” McQuary said. “We’re really focusing because we really want to win.

“We don’t want to end the streak. We want to keep the tradition.”

The Blue Tornado may feel even more confident after beating Baylor head-to-head last Thursday and again in the regional with a team that Oehmig called one of the best McCallie’s ever fielded.

The Red Raiders have won the last five boys’ state championships and eight of the last nine.

“I think that we have some good confidence and we know that on any day, anything can happen,” McCallie coach Tony Meyers said. “I wouldn’t use the word ‘confident,’ but our guys feel good and know that they can play well.”