When it comes to finding the end zone, it's That '70s Show for David Miller.

Miller, a Greensburg Central Catholic senior running back, scored three touchdowns yesterday in a 33-7 victory against Aliquippa to lift his career total to 72. Miller scored on touchdown runs of 79, 4 and 2 yards.

The WPIAL does not keep statistics, and no one knows the league record for career touchdowns. But it is hard to believe that anyone has many more than Miller.

Miller is a 5-foot-10, 210-pound brute who has big legs and is built low to the ground. Greensburg Central Catholic coach Muzzy Colosimo often has compared him to Don Nottingham, who played running back for seven seasons in the NFL with the Baltimore Colts and Miami Dolphins. Colosimo made the comparison again after the Class AA title game.

Miller has heard the Nottingham comparisons before, even though he never has seen highlights of Nottingham.

"I hate when he calls me that. It makes me sound chubby," Miller said.

Miller and Colosimo were like a little comedy act in the postgame news conference. When Miller was asked about what play he ran for a 79-yard touchdown, he said, "It was a '26 power.' We run that about 35 times a game. It's the only play Muzzy really knows."

Colosimo talked about how Miller was getting stronger as the game went on, and that's why Colosimo kept giving him the ball in the second half. At one point, Miller carried the ball 12 times in a row.

"I don't know what he's talking about [getting stronger]," Miller said. "I was dying out there. I was hoping he'd call a timeout so I could get some water."

The WPIAL will not have final attendance figures for another day or so, but this was one of the smallest crowds since the league started playing all four championship games at one site in 1986.

Only 6,200 tickets were presold. WPIAL executive director Tim O'Malley was hoping 6,000 more might have been sold yesterday but was unsure if that happened. For certain, the crowd was not close to the 18,525 of last year -- and that was considered low.

The WPIAL usually hopes to get at least 20,000 fans total. Two years ago, the attendance was 24,500, and it was 24,614 in 2006. The record for the four title games was 39,031 in 2001.

Certainly, the weather contributed to the low attendance this year. The Pitt-West Virginia game also might have kept some people away.

After the Class AAA final, West Allegheny star running back Mike Caputo limped off the field with blood caked on his nose. He missed a few plays in the second half with an injured ankle.

"That was the longest and toughest game I've ever been in," said Caputo, who also played the entire game on defense.

When asked what hurts the most, Caputo said, "Everything."

But Caputo still felt a lot better than after the Class AAA final last year. He was on Blackhawk's team then, and the Cougars were defeated by Thomas Jefferson, 34-14.

Not many coaches have won five WPIAL championships in their careers, but West Allegheny's Bob Palko got his fifth title with a 36-28 victory against Hopewell in the Class AAA final.

Three of West Allegheny's titles came with Palko's son, Tyler, at quarterback. Tyler was on the field after the game.

This was the fifth time in the past six years Clairton and Rochester have met in a postseason game -- and the one-point final margin (14-13 Clairton win) should come as no surprise. Last year, Clairton won, 16-0, but the other four games were decided by a total of seven points.

• Greensburg Central Catholic lost standout lineman Pat Mahoney with a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his knee.

• West Allegheny's offense always seems to come up big in championship games. The Indians now have five championships and scored 30 points or more in three of those games.

• The 64 points in the Class AAA final was the most since 1997, when West Allegheny defeated Brownsville, 51-24.

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