2024: Made 11 starts in 13 appearances with a 2-1 record and a 4.50 ERA ... Primarily started on Saturdays in league play ... Made his first appearance of the season on Feb. 27 against No. 11 East Carolina, allowing three run in two innings ... Got the win on March against William & Mary after holding the Tribe to one hit and two walks while fanning four in a 2.1-inning start ... Struck out a season-high seven batters in a 3.2-inning start versus Princeton, but was responsible for three runs on six hits and two walks ... Improved to 2-0 with a win at No. 20 Coastal Carolina. Morgan allowed three runs, only one of them earned, on four hits and one walk and added a strikeout in 2.2 innings of work.
2023: Started in all 14 appearances made for the Monarchs in 2023 … With a 3-5 record ended the season with a 6.37 ERA … In 59 innings pitched, allowed only 52 runs and 18 walks and threw 47 strikeouts … In a game against St. John’s on Feb. 17, he threw seven strikeouts and allowed only one walk … In a win against St. Joseph’s on March 4 allowed only five hits and two runs.
2022: D1Baseball Freshman All-American, Baseball America Freshman All-American, NCBWA Freshman All-American, Collegiate Baseball Freshman All-American, ABCA Second-Team All-Region, Conference USA Freshman of the Year, First-Team All-Conference USA, C-USA All-Freshman Team ... Pitched in 16 games, making 13 starts ... Went 8-0 with a 1.69 ERA ... Finished sixth in the country with his 1.69 ERA ... Ranked eighth in the country in strikeouts to walk ratio at 8.25, ninth in walks allowed per nine innings at 1.04 and 11th in the country in WHIP at 0.94 ... Had the fourth most wins by a pitcher without a loss (8-0) ... In 69.1 innings, allowed 57 hits, 23 runs, 13 earned, with 66 strikeouts and eight walks ... Held opponents to a .216 batting average ... Held right-handed batters to a .206 average while lefties hit .234 against him ... The leadoff batter of an inning hit just .203 ... ODU was 12-1 in games started by Morgan ... His first career inning was a scoreless inning out of the bullpen against Iona ... In his first start, pitched three innings, striking out six with two walks and one hit allowed. The two walks were the most he allowed in a game all year ... He earned his first win against Princeton, going five innings, allowing one run on three hits, struck out seven with no walks ... In his first C-USA action, out of the bullpen, went two innings at FIU, giving up two runs with two strikeouts and a walk ... He then did not allow a run for 26.2 consecutive innings ... He tossed six innings of shutout ball with 10 strikeouts and three hits allowed in a win over UTSA ... Followed with five scoreless frames, allowing two hits at UAB ... Against FAU, went six strong innings, giving up four hits, no runs and three strikeouts ... Completed seven shutout innings with eight strikeouts and three hits in a win over LA Tech ... Allowed a run in seven innings at Southern Miss, snapping the streak but pitching ODU to a 4-1 win ... Pitched six innings in a win over Marshall, giving up a season-high five runs, but earned the win. Struck out five with no walks ...Went. 5.2 innings in final start of the season, giving up six runs, three earned, in a C-USA Tournament opening win over Middle Tennessee.
Prep: Competed in the Carpenter Cup game in 2021.
Personal: Full name is Blake Robert Morgan … Son of Colleen and Joe Morgan … Has one brother, Zack (23) … Majoring in leadership … Hobbies include fishing, poker, and video games … Favorite team: Philadelphia Phillies … Favorite athlete: Blake Snell
Why ODU?: “Best fit.”