If I match up two of the most iconic superheroes against one another, who are you taking — Batman or Superman?

A little ridiculous, but such a question would certainly offer various opinions, and so to did a hypothetical matchup between Adams County Christian School and Cathedral High School last season. That’s because the Rebels and the Green Wave were the two best teams in the Natchez/Vidalia area in 2014.

Answers to that whole Batman/Superman issue will be addressed when “Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice” hits theaters in March 2016. As for who would win between Cathedral and ACCS, thankfully, that question will be answered even sooner.

We’ll never know how ACCS would have defended Wyatt Boothe, Dee Fleming and Cathedral’s dangerous rushing attack, nor will we ever know if a stingy Cathedral defense could keep up with three of the best athletes in the area — Trey Fleming, Lester Wells and Torrey Smith.

We will, however, know if ACCS’ brute rushing attack can take out a reigning state champion in Cathedral this fall.

We can thank the Mississippi High School Athletic Association for this wonderful gift. Sparked by complaints from other public schools, the MHSAA decided to crack down and enforce an old rule that would prevent out-of-state students from competing at MHSAA schools.

The funny thing is before (and actually during) Don Hinton’s regime as executive director, Louisiana players were allowed to participate in athletics at Cathedral. Former associate director Larry Thomas was quoted in an article in The Natchez Democrat in 2004, stating though Cathedral lies wholly within the area assigned to Natchez High School (Natchez High’s area is all of Adams County), students may reside and compete in athletics that are within a 20-mile radius of the school, including Louisiana players.

Things changed this summer, however, and the MHSAA has simply dismissed the allowance of Louisiana athletes in the past to previous leadership’s lack of rule enforcement. So Hinton and the MHSAA ruled with an iron fist these past couple of months, and well, the association will have to move into the 2015-16 athletic season without its defending football and baseball state champions because of it.

So the Mississippi Association of Independent Schools gladly accepted Cathedral with open arms, and regardless of how you portray the MHSAA or MAIS after this transition process, none can deny the biggest winners of all is the football fans in the Miss-Lou.

Unfortunately, those who have lost the most in this situation are Cathedral female athletes who play multiple sports. Abby Brown, for instance, will participate in softball, cross country, soccer and cheerleading this fall for the Green Wave. Because of the demanding schedule, Brown will have to choose between playing one sport or the other on some days.

Though far from an ideal situation, the MAIS scenario at least matches two of the best teams in the area against one another. Instead of having a hypothetical discussion like who would win out of Batman or Superman, we can paint the lines on the field, get a few referees down to a local high school stadium and have these two local powerhouses square off.

Interestingly enough, teams used to play one another in town quite frequently. In fact, in the 1970s, former Thomas Jefferson Academy coach Bobby Marks told me his team would play against ACCS and Trinity, and whichever team beat the other two teams would be declared the city champion. That, of course, was before Thomas Jefferson closed down in 1977.

Perhaps Cathedral’s move into the MAIS will revive the city championship, with hopefully Trinity getting ACCS and Cathedral on the schedule in the future.

It’s not too far of a stretch. After all, look at where we are now.

Last season, it would have taken a superhuman effort to get ACCS and Cathedral in a primetime matchup. This season, fantasy is reality.