It may seem like comparing apples to oranges.
Or in this case, like comparing flame-throwers and fireballers.
Michael Main is a pitcher at DeLand High School. He's a senior right-hander who throws in the low-to-mid 90s, has four or five equally nasty pitches, hits for power, runs the bases well and is the most highly touted prospect around here since a kid named Chipper Jones.
Main pitched the Bulldogs to the Class 6A Final Four last year, and is almost certain to be a first-round pick in baseball's amateur draft this June.
About 20 miles away, Main's female counterpart toils away in equal domination. Kelsi Dunne is a senior softball pitcher at Spruce Creek, and she broke so many school and area records last year it'd be easy to lose count.
Dunne is one of the best pitchers in Florida prep history, with 461 strikeouts last season, and she is on pace to crush batters' spirits again in 2007.
They're both nearly untouchable when they're in top form.
I think Main is in for a rude awakening. Those female softball pitchers can bring it.